Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…
test: lol which farmyard bird got its tail shot off?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmyard bird, tail · What happens: get, shoot off · To what, where: test
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 test | punct |
| 3 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 got | discourse |
| 4 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 farmyard | det |
| 5 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | compound |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | nsubj |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 shot | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | farmyard bird | test | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | shoot off | past | bird's tail | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 turkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 turkey | det |
| 2 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a goose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goose | det |
| 2 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a hen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the farm's big white goose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farm | det |
| 2 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goose | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 farm | case |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 6 | goose | goose | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/853-pg27200-part64/t12/