Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…
What were the cats gossiping about?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cats · What happens: be, gossip · To what, where: cats
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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 | 4 cats | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cats | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cats | det |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | gossiping | gossip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 cats | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 gossiping | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the cats | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gossip speech: other | gerund | the cats not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: 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
the eagle and the English gent's gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 coins | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gent | det |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gent | amod |
| 6 | gent | gent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coins | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 gent | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coins | compound |
| 9 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eagle | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coin | the English gent | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rudy and Babette, secret footsie under the table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Babette | cc |
| 3 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rudy | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 footsie | punct |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 footsie | amod |
| 6 | footsie | footsie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rudy | appos |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 footsie | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the weather and the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weather | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rain | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rain | det |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weather | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the hunters and their two stolen silver cups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cups | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cups | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cups | nummod |
| 6 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cups | amod |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cups | compound |
| 8 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunters | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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