Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…
Wait, so the sparks, were they like kids leaving school, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, sparks, kids · What happens: wait, be, leave · To what, where: school
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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 | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 like | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sparks | det |
| 5 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 like | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sparks | punct |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | cop |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 10 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 like | obj |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 kids | acl |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bruv | punct |
| 14 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 school | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | 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 | past | the sparks | like property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | kids not said here | school and bruv | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=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
Nah, they were just sparks, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 sparks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sparks | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sparks | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 sparks | advmod |
| 6 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sparks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | sparks and bruv | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, they weren't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 were | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 were | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 were | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | they | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, sort of
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sort | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 sort | fixed |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the kids called them that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 called | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kids | det |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 called | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the kids | them = they | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme that=Result |
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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