Test 13 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…
Did the dwarfs think their hearts were squishy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dwarfs, hearts · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarfs | det |
| 3 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 squishy | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 squishy | cop |
| 8 | squishy | squishy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | the dwarfs | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | dwarfs's hearts | squishy property | 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
No, their hearts were made of iron and ice like the Pole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 iron | case |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ice | cc |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 iron | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 Pole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pole | det |
| 13 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 iron | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | their hearts | of iron like the Pole and ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 2
Yeah, their hearts were soft and wrinkled like old sealskin purses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 soft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 soft | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soft | cop |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wrinkled | cc |
| 8 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 soft | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 purses | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 purses | amod |
| 11 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 purses | compound |
| 12 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrinkled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | their hearts | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wrinkle | participle | their hearts not said here | like old sealskin purses | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, like sealskin purses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 purses | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 purses | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 purses | case |
| 4 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purses | compound |
| 5 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, like soft sealskin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sealskin | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sealskin | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 sealskin | case |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sealskin | amod |
| 5 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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