Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

mate, what was hitting the dock-leaves like a drum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: hit · To what, where: dock leaves

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hitting	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hitting	aux
5	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 mate	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leaves	det
7	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dock	punct
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hitting	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 drum	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 drum	det
12	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · progressive	mate	the dock leaves				like a drum	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leaf=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

the cold drops of the summer storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drops	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drops	amod
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 storm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storm	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 storm	compound
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the sleet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sleet	det
2	sleet	sleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the heavy spring rain from the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rain	amod
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rain	compound
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 north	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rain	nmod

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.

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