Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…
Wait, so what even is the Dryad, like a tree-girl or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Dryad
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 Dryad | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Dryad | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dryad | det |
| 8 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 girl | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Dryad | appos |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 what | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 Dryad | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | 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 | is a | present | the Dryad | 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
a girl who has been turned into a bush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 turned | aux:pass |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 girl | acl:relcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bush | det |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect · passive | a girl | a bush | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into bush=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a tree spirit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | compound |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a spirit that lives inside a tree trunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 trunk | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 trunk | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trunk | compound |
| 8 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a spirit | a tree trunk | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside trunk=Location |
Option 4
a forest pixie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pixie | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pixie | compound |
| 3 | pixie | pixie | 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/819-pg27200-part30/t2/