Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…
bro, what did Rudy say an evening like that was worth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rudy, that · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 worth | mark |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 worth | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 worth | cop |
| 12 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 say | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Rudy | evening | bro vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | worth property | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A whole life, literally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 life | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 life | punct |
| 5 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 3 life | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A whole life, literally, with every single sunny day on the lake included
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 life | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 included | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 literally | punct |
| 5 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 3 life | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 10 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 life | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | nmod |
| 15 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | participle · passive | a whole life and every single sunny day on the lake | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
A whole life, literally, and then some more after that, like a dream
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 life | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 life | punct |
| 5 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 3 life | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 that | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 that | advmod |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 more | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 that | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 life | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 dream | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dream | det |
| 16 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 that | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A whole year, honestly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honestly | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 5 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 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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