Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…
ok so Catherine greased the trees with BUTTER, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Catherine · What happens: grease · To what, where: trees
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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 greased | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 4 greased | mark |
| 3 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 greased | nsubj |
| 4 | greased | grease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 greased | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 BUTTER | case |
| 8 | BUTTER | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 greased | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 greased | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 greased | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grease | past | Catherine | the trees | with BUTTER | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Destination with butter=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
nah, to stop the horse slipping on it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stop | mark |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obj |
| 7 | slipping | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slipping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | the horse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slip | gerund | on horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
nah, to go faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | to-infinitive | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
nope, for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 fun | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fun | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 fun | case |
| 4 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yep, to stop the wheels hurting them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 stop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stop | mark |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wheels | det |
| 6 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stop | obj |
| 7 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stop | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | the wheels | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wheel=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hurt | gerund | wheels = wheel | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
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/753-pg2591-part29/t1/