Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…
what did the old clergyman say the lightning was?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old clergyman · What happens: say, be · To what, where: lightning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clergyman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clergyman | amod |
| 5 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lightning | det |
| 8 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lightning | cop |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the old clergyman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the lightning | tree rules |
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
bolts from the clouds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 clouds | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clouds | det |
| 4 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 bolts | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
servants of the Lord God who strike down the wicked and the old trees alike
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strike | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 God | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 God | det |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 God | compound |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 servants | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 strike | nsubj |
| 7 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 strike | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wicked | det |
| 10 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strike | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trees | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trees | amod |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strike | conj |
| 15 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 7 strike | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike down | present | servants of the Lord God | the wicked | alike property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
servants of the Lord God
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 God | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 God | det |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 God | compound |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 servants | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
servants of the Lord God, sent down from heaven to punish the proud people of the earth
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 God | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 God | det |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 God | compound |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 servants | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 servants | punct |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 sent | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 heaven | case |
| 10 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 punish | mark |
| 12 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 14 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 punish | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send down | past | servants of the Lord God | heaven | down property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from heaven=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | punish | to-infinitive | servants of the Lord God not said here | the proud people of the earth | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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