Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…
so where did the beetle want to go to find dung?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beetle · What happens: do, want, go, find · To what, where: dung
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beetle | det |
| 5 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | advcl |
| 11 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the beetle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the beetle not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the beetle not said here | dung | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dung=Topic |
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
Far away past the city gates and over the royal fields
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | past | past | ADP | _ | 6 gates | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gates | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gates | compound |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 away | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fields | cc |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 fields | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fields | det |
| 10 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fields | amod |
| 11 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gates | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The other side of the ditch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 side | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 side | amod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ditch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ditch | det |
| 6 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Across the river at the bottom of the hill beyond the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 bottom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 river | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hill | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottom | nmod |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hill | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Behind the old garden wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wall | amod |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wall | compound |
| 5 | wall | wall | 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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