Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…
Oi, so who's the bloke in the arbor, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be · To what, where: bloke, arbor
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bloke | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 bloke | advmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 bloke | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bloke | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bloke | det |
| 7 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oi | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 arbor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arbor | det |
| 10 | arbor | arbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bloke | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Oi | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Oi | the bloke | the arbor | 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
a young fella who's stealing her ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fella | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fella | amod |
| 3 | fella | fella | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stealing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stealing | aux |
| 6 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fella | acl:relcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ring | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stealing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present · progressive | a young fella | her ring | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme |
Option 2
some bloke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 bloke | det |
| 2 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a rich geezer who's dumping his mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 geezer | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 geezer | amod |
| 3 | geezer | geezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dumping | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dumping | aux |
| 6 | dumping | dump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 geezer | acl:relcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dumping | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dump | present · progressive | a rich geezer | his mate | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mate=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a young man saying goodbye to his girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 girl | nmod:poss |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | a young man not said here | goodbye | man's girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic to girl=Recipient |
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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