Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…
what did Rudy call Babette, the cute thing he said?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rudy · What happens: call, say · To what, where: Babette, cute thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» 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 call | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Babette | appos |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | Rudy | Babette | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme babette=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | the cute thing not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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
My lovely darling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 darling | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 darling | amod |
| 3 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His dearest bride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bride | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 bride | amod |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His own sweet wife, the cute thing he said right at the very end
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | appos |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 end | advmod |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | the cute thing not said here | at the end | right property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
His own sweet wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 4 | wife | wife | 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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