Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…
What did the soldier want news about, mate?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: do, want · To what, where: news
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 mate | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 about | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the soldier | news mate | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot news=Theme |
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
his mother and father
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 father | cc |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his comrade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 2 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
his comrade and little Mary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 2 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Mary | cc |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Mary | amod |
| 5 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comrade | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the wars and his home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wars | det |
| 2 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 home | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wars | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/299-pg1597-part26/t11/