Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…
Mate, what does melancholy mean in the story?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: melancholy · What happens: mean
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 5 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | melancholy | in the story | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in story=Attribute |
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
tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
very quietly unhappy and thoughtful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 unhappy | advmod |
| 2 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 unhappy | advmod |
| 3 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thoughtful | cc |
| 5 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 unhappy | conj |
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/866-pg27200-part77/t13/