Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…
wait, was she looking for mary the whole time?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, look
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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 | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 wait | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mary | case |
| 7 | mary | mary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | 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 | look | past · progressive | she | time | for mary | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mary=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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, mary with the red flowers in her hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mary | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mary | punct |
| 3 | mary | mary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 flowers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flowers | amod |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mary | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hair | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
no, she was looking for the strangers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 looking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 strangers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 strangers | det |
| 8 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | she | for the strangers | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stranger=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, she was looking for a friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 looking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | she | for a friend | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for friend=Theme |
Option 4
no, she gave up searching for mary ages ago and went to the church instead
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| 6 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ages | case |
| 8 | mary | mary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ages | compound |
| 9 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 searching | obl |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 searching | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | she | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | search | gerund | she not said here | for mary ages | ago property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for age=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | she not said here | the church | instead property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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