Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

did the earwig mums think their kids were ugly? no way, what did they think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: earwig mums, kids · What happens: think, be · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mums	det
3	earwig	earwig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mums	compound
4	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kids	nmod:poss
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ugly	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ugly	cop
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 think	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 think	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the earwig mums	no way		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	mums's kids		ugly property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past · do-support	kids = kid	no way		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 · ✓ the right answer

The most beautiful and clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beautiful	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 beautiful	advmod
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clever	cc
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beautiful	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The kindest of all the insects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kindest	det
2	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 insects	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 insects	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 insects	det
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kindest	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Very clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 clever	advmod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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