Test 9 · ★ · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…
bro, what does the old man give him in the dream?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man · What happens: give · To what, where: him, dream
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dream | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dream | det |
| 12 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · do-support | the old man | him = he | the dream | bro vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
A brand new set of pipes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 2 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 3 new | advmod |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | amod |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pipes | case |
| 6 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A fine silver cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cup | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cup | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cup | compound |
| 4 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A brand new set of pipes plus a magic ship to take him home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 2 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 3 new | advmod |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | amod |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pipes | case |
| 6 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nmod |
| 7 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 10 ship | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ship | compound |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pipes | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive | him = he | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
Option 4
A bright new sail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sail | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sail | amod |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sail | amod |
| 4 | sail | sail | 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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