Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…
ok so who is the guy who shrinks to get into people's hearts?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy · What happens: be, shrink, get · To what, where: guy, hearts
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 840 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volunteer shrinks to wander through strange hearts, then a clerk puts on the goloshes and feels like a poet» 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 6 guy | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 guy | advmod |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 guy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guy | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guy | det |
| 6 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 shrinks | nsubj |
| 8 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shrinks | xcomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 people | case |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 guy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the guy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shrink | present | the guy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the guy not said here | people's hearts | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heart=Destination |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the volunteer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 volunteer | det |
| 2 | volunteer | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the watchman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 watchman | det |
| 2 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the clerk who went to the steam bath by mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clerk | det |
| 2 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clerk | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bath | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bath | det |
| 7 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bath | compound |
| 8 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 mistake | case |
| 10 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the clerk | the steam bath | by mistake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bath=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the young officer who shrinks to get into hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 officer | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 officer | amod |
| 3 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 shrinks | nsubj |
| 5 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 officer | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shrinks | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hearts | case |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | present | the young officer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the young officer not said here | hearts | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heart=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/840-pg27200-part51/t1/