Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

nah but what did the snails adopt, like a kid?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snails · What happens: do, adopt · To what, where: kid

This is test 9 · ★ 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snails	det
6	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 adopt	nsubj
7	adopt	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kid	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 kid	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kid	det
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adopt	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	adopt	present	the snails	a kid					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=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

a plain brown worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 worm	det
2	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worm	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worm	amod
4	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

an orphan little common snail from the lane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snail	det
2	orphan	orphan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snail	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snail	amod
4	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snail	amod
5	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 lane	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lane	det
8	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snail	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a little common snail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snail	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snail	amod
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snail	amod
4	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a small plain snail that nobody wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snail	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snail	amod
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snail	amod
4	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wanted	nsubj
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 snail	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	a small plain snail						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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