Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…
Wait, so where did he even try to get a ride?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, try, get · To what, where: ride
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 837 «Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48: a lost counsellor wanders strange old streets and thinks he is ill» 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 | _ | 8 try | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 try | advmod |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 try | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 try | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 try | nsubj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 try | advmod |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 try | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ride | det |
| 12 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | 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 | try | past · do-support | he | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | a ride | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Over at the king's new market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over | over | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 market | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 market | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 market | amod |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Over | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | market | the king | nom market «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Near the East gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 gate | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 3 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gate | compound |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Out by the new meadow beyond town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 5 meadow | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 meadow | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meadow | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meadow | amod |
| 5 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meadow | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Down at the old wooden harbour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down | down | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 harbour | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 harbour | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harbour | amod |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harbour | amod |
| 6 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Down | obl |
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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