Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

Mate, what was the big sparkly thing they saw on the hill?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, see · To what, where: big sparkly thing, hill

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
7	sparkly	sparkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the big sparkly thing	the big sparkly thing					tree rules
2	see	past	Mate	the big sparkly thing not said here		the hill			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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

a river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a clear lake full of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lake	det
2	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lake	amod
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lake	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a shining stone house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
2	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 house	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a green hill of bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hill	amod
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bushes	case
5	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hill	nmod

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/849-pg27200-part60/t7/