Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…
Mate, what was the sauce on that crow?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: sauce
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sauce | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 sauce | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sauce | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sauce | det |
| 6 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | appos |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 crow | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 crow | det |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sauce | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate | the sauce | on that crow | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Clay from the ditch, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 ditch | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ditch | det |
| 4 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clay | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clay | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Some proper clay out his pocket, sick sauce that was, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 clay | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clay | amod |
| 3 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 clay | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clay | conj | ||
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sauce | punct |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sauce | amod |
| 9 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clay | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sauce | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clay | punct |
| 13 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 clay | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Clay out his pocket, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clay | clay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Clay | compound:prt |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clay | obj | ||
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Clay | punct |
| 6 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 Clay | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clay out | imperative | you not said here | his pocket | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent pocket=Destination |
Option 4
Gravy from the big pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gravy | gravy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 pot | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pot | amod |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gravy | nmod |
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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