Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…
Did the bell sound clear when they got to the willow?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bell, they · What happens: sound, get
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bell | det |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 willow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 willow | det |
| 11 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past · do-support | the bell | clear property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | past | they | to the willow result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to willow=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
no, it was loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 loud | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loud | cop |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | loud property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
no, it was just a fancy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 fancy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fancy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fancy | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 fancy | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fancy | det |
| 7 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a fancy | tree rules |
Option 3
no, it sounded very muddy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sounded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 muddy | advmod |
| 6 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounded | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | it | muddy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
no, it was just a fancy of the boys who had walked so far and wanted something
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 fancy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fancy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fancy | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 fancy | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fancy | det |
| 7 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boys | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fancy | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walked | aux |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 boys | acl:relcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 walked | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wanted | cc |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walked | conj |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a fancy | of the boys | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | past · perfect | the boys | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | the boys not said here | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme |
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