Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…
fr fr, what did the needle think the broken bottle was?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr fr, broken bottle · What happens: do, think, break, be · To what, where: needle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fr | compound |
| 2 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fr | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 needle | det |
| 7 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottle | det |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bottle | amod |
| 11 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr fr | the needle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | fr fr | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | be | past | the broken bottle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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
a shiny diamond in the lady's crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 diamond | det |
| 2 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 diamond | amod |
| 3 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 crown | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 diamond | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the lady | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a diamond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 diamond | det |
| 2 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a glass bead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bead | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bead | compound |
| 3 | bead | bead | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a bright gem
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gem | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gem | amod |
| 3 | gem | gem | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/812-pg27200-part23/t12/