Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…
who made the coffee, the wife or anne
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: coffee
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coffee | det |
| 4 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wife | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffee | appos |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 anne | cc |
| 9 | anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the coffee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Product |
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
it was the laborer's wife who made it in the kitchen
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 | 6 wife | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 laborer | det |
| 4 | laborer | laborer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 laborer | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | the laborer's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the laborer's wife | laborer | the kitchen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
Option 2
anne made it herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | anne | it | anne obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the laborer's wife did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 laborer | det |
| 2 | laborer | laborer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 laborer | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the laborer's wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
the laborer's wife did, not anne at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 laborer | det |
| 2 | laborer | laborer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 laborer | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 anne | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 anne | advmod |
| 8 | anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 did | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the laborer's wife | anne | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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