Test 1 · ★ · German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings ho…
ok so you know that barrel of nails in the story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: know
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 688 «German Tales, The Horn of Plenty, part 28: Peter brings home a barrel of gold and meets a sad young lover» 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 | _ | 4 know | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 barrel | mark |
| 6 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nails | case |
| 8 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 barrel | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nails | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
it's secretly full of gold, obvs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 full | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 3 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obvs | punct |
| 8 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | of gold and obvs; full, secretly property | tree rules |
Option 2
it's secretly full of gold, obvs, and he sold the nails to a guy
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 full | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 3 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obvs | punct |
| 8 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gold | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sold | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sold | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sold | nsubj |
| 12 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nails | det |
| 14 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sold | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 guy | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 guy | det |
| 17 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | of gold and obvs; full, secretly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell | past | he | the nails | a guy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nail=Theme to guy=Recipient |
Option 3
yeah, it's full of old rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 full | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rocks | case |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rocks | amod |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | of old rocks; full property | tree rules |
Option 4
it's just nails, nothing more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nails | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nails | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 nails | advmod |
| 4 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 nails | conj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 nails | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | nails | 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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