Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…
Yo, what's the old bloke wrapped up in, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old bloke · What happens: be, wrap up, innit · To what, where: old bloke
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bloke | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bloke | amod |
| 7 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 8 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bloke | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 innit | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wrapped | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the old bloke | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wrap up | participle | the old bloke not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
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
a thick rough cape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cape | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cape | amod |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cape | amod |
| 4 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a huge grey sheet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sheet | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sheet | amod |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sheet | amod |
| 4 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a massive old horse-cloth tied with string
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 2 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cloth | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cloth | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cloth | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 horse | punct |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cloth | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 string | case |
| 9 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | participle | a massive old horse cloth not said here | with string | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with string=Co-Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a massive horse-cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 2 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloth | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 horse | punct |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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