Test 14 · ★ · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…
so the youngest girl wants to know who's coming, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest girl · What happens: want, know, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 wants | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | nsubj |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wants | xcomp |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 know | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wants | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wants | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the youngest girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | the youngest girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | present · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, just one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, two brothers have to leave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | two brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | two brothers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, only the youngest one is going
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 going | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | the youngest one | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, two sisters must get married
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sisters | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sisters | nummod |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | must · passive | two sisters | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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