Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…
wait, the snakes stuck their tongues out??
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, snakes · What happens: wait, stick out · To what, where: tongues
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snakes | det |
| 4 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stuck | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 stuck | advmod |
| 9 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stick out | past | the snakes | snakes's tongues | out property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=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
yep, they stuck them out lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stuck | compound:prt |
| 7 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 stuck | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out | past | they | them = they | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 2
no, they bowed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 bowed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | they | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, rude little snakes fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 fr | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snakes | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snakes | amod |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fr | compound |
| 6 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, they were calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 calm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 calm | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 calm | cop |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | calm 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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