Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…
yo did the elves actually bounce around with no clothes on lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, elves · What happens: do, bounce around
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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 | yo | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elves | det |
| 4 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bounce | nsubj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 bounce | advmod |
| 6 | bounce | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 bounce | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 clothes | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 clothes | det |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 bounce | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lol | case |
| 12 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 bounce | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | yo | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bounce around | present | the elves | with no clothes; actually, around property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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, they had tiny trousers and hats on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trousers | amod |
| 6 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hats | cc |
| 8 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trousers | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | tiny trousers and hats | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah they were totally naked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 naked | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 naked | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 naked | cop |
| 4 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 5 naked | advmod |
| 5 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | naked, totally property | tree rules |
Option 3
nah, they had hats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | they | hats | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |
Option 4
nah, they were in shirts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 shirts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shirts | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shirts | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shirts | case |
| 6 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | shirts | 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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