Test 13 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an…
what's the fancy word for a huge snow fall?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: fancy word
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 word | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 snow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 snow | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snow | amod |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fall | obl |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 word | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fancy word | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | for a huge snow | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for snow=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 · ← Mova's choice
mountain landslide of snow and ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 landslide | compound |
| 2 | landslide | landslide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 snow | case |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 landslide | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ice | cc |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 landslide | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
snowdrift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snowdrift | snowdrift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
blizzard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blizzard | blizzard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
avalanche
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avalanche | avalanche | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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