Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back…
Wasn't the Bible on the altar open at some random page?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bible · What happens: not be · To what, where: random page
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 795 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back her soul» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | cop |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 open | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bible | det |
| 4 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 open | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 altar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 altar | det |
| 7 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Bible | nmod |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 page | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 page | det |
| 11 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 page | amod |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Bible on the altar | some random page | open 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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it was Joel, rend your hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 rend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Joel | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Joel | cop |
| 5 | Joel | Joel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rend | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Joel | punct |
| 7 | rend | rend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rend | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | Joel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rend | infinitive | Joel | your hearts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, it was Joel, tear your hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 tear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Joel | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Joel | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Joel | cop |
| 5 | Joel | Joel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tear | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tear | punct |
| 7 | tear | tear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | Joel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | infinitive | Joel | your hearts | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location heart=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, it was Job
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 Job | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Job | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Job | cop |
| 5 | Job | Job | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Job | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, just a psalm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 psalm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 psalm | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 psalm | det |
| 5 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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