Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…
what was the dream about, be real
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: dream
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the sea» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dream | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dream | det |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 real | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 about | punct |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 real | cop |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dream | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the dream | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | about, real property | tree rules |
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
her son on the boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 boat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
her lost sister in a cold river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 river | amod |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
her own child, sinking in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 child | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinking | punct |
| 5 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 child | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sinking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | gerund | her own child not said here | the sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
her own child, sinking in the cold sea and calling her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 child | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sinking | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sinking | punct |
| 5 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sinking | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 calling | cc |
| 11 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sinking | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 calling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | gerund | her own child | the cold sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | her own child not said here | child | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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