Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…
was the birch proper quick, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birch · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birch | det |
| 3 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 was | nsubj |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 quick | advmod |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 1 was | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nah | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nah | cc |
| 8 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 1 was | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 was | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the birch | quick property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
very slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | very | very | ADV | _ | 2 slowly | advmod |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
straight as a rod
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 rod | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 rod | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rod | det |
| 4 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
like lightning, zigzag up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 2 lightning | case |
| 2 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 zigzag | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lightning | punct |
| 4 | zigzag | zigzag | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 zigzag | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zigzag up | imperative | you not said here | like lightning | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
quick as a sparrow hop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 hop | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hop | det |
| 4 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hop | compound |
| 5 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 quick | obl |
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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