Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…

real talk, why was the room so dark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: room

This is test 14 · ★ 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 room	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 room	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 dark	advmod
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the room					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

there was no moon tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no moon			there	tonight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the lamp was out of oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oil	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 oil	cop
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 oil	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 oil	case
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lamp			oil			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no money for a candle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 candle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 money	nmod

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

Option 4

no coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 coal	det
2	coal	coal	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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