Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…
Ok but which old shepherd cracks the joke about the root?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old shepherd · What happens: crack · To what, where: joke
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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 | Ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 6 cracks | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 cracks | cc |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cracks | obj |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shepherd | amod |
| 5 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cracks | nsubj |
| 6 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cracks | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 root | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 root | det |
| 11 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joke | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cracks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | present | old shepherd | the joke | about the root | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Patient joke=Result |
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
Peter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ulf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulf | Ulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Blaize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blaize | blaize | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Otto
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/686-pg2435-part26/t5/