Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…
so the parrot kept shouting let us be men, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parrot · What happens: keep, shout, let, be · To what, where: us, let men
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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 | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parrot | det |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 men | compound |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 men | cop |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shouting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the parrot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | the parrot not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | let men | 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
yes, very loudly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 loudly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 loudly | advmod |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
no, it only shouted once at the very end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 shouted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 shouted | advmod |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 shouted | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 end | advmod |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | it | at the end | once property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, over and over in the cage all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 over | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 over | punct |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 over | cc |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 over | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cage | det |
| 8 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 over | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 over | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, over and over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 over | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 over | punct |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 over | cc |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 over | conj |
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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