Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…
lowkey, who was the knight carrying him around?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, knight · What happens: be, carry around · To what, where: knight, lowkey
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knight | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 knight | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knight | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lowkey | appos |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 knight | acl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carrying | obj |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 carrying | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lowkey | the knight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry around | gerund | the knight not said here | lowkey | around property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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
a peasant with a hoe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hoe | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hoe | det |
| 5 | hoe | hoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peasant | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the frog-lady's knight from the castle at Bordingborg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 frog | punct |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 lady | case |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knight | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Bordingborg | case |
| 11 | Bordingborg | Bordingborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a knight with a plume
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 plume | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plume | det |
| 5 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a knight with a gleaming plume and silver spurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 plume | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plume | det |
| 5 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 plume | amod |
| 6 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spurs | cc |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spurs | compound |
| 9 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plume | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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