Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…
mid or what, the schoolboys said 2000 inhabitants, true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: schoolboys · What happens: say · To what, where: 2000 inhabitants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 307 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of Danish towns and falls asleep» 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 | mid | mid | X | _ | 3 what | advmod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 schoolboys | det |
| 6 | schoolboys | schoolboy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 inhabitants | nummod |
| 9 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 inhabitants | amod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the schoolboys | 2000 inhabitants | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme inhabitant=Manner |
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yes, it was quite true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 true | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 true | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 true | advmod |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | true property | tree rules |
Option 3
yes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
no, it was not true
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 true | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 true | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 true | advmod |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | it | true property | tree rules |
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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