Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…
lowkey, who was calling her name from up top?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: call, name · To what, where: name, up top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 810 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a mother's ghostly farewell ends, and a proud girl sneers at "sen" names at a party» 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 calling | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 calling | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 calling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 calling | aux |
| 5 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calling | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | up | up | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 top | amod |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calling | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 calling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · progressive | lowkey | lowkey's name | up top | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from top=Source | |||
| 2 | name | lowkey | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 brother, all plaintive
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 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plaintive | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 plaintive | det |
| 5 | plaintive | plaintive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brother | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Her husband, all plaintive and sad, from the top of the stairs above the grave
The tree, 15 words
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 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plaintive | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plaintive | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 plaintive | det |
| 5 | plaintive | plaintive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sad | cc |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plaintive | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 top | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plaintive | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stairs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stairs | det |
| 14 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | above | above | ADP | _ | 17 grave | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grave | det |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Her husband, who had been waiting at the window all night in a broken voice
The tree, 15 words
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 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 waiting | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 waiting | aux |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | obl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · perfect · progressive | Her husband | the window | night | in a broken voice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location | ||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Her husband, all plaintive
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 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plaintive | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 plaintive | det |
| 5 | plaintive | plaintive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 husband | conj |
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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