Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…
wait, the Dryad's life got shorter, how short?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, life · What happens: wait, get
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dryad | det |
| 4 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Dryad | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 8 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 got | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 short | advmod |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 got | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the Dryad's life | short property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 · ✓ the right answer
like the life of a fly that lives just one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 life | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 life | det |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fly | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fly | det |
| 6 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 life | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fly | acl:relcl |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a fly | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
only a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 day | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
like a sparrow's short spring, about a week or so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 spring | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sparrow | det |
| 3 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spring | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 sparrow | case |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spring | amod |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 week | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 week | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 week | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spring | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 so | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 spring | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
like a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | 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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