Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

Wait, what did the gypsy lady give Ib?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, gypsy lady · What happens: wait, give · To what, where: Ib

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 give	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 give	iobj
10	?	?	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	give	past · do-support	the gypsy lady		Ib				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ib=Recipient what=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 · ✓ the right answer

three wishing nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nuts	nummod
2	wishing	wishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nuts	compound
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a wooden stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

three hazel branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 branches	nummod
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 branches	compound
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a knotted green stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
2	knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stick	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knot	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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/t8/