Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…
Gutted, where did the boy say they'd ride to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, they · What happens: gut, be, say, ride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 say | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gutted | conj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ride | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ride | aux |
| 10 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ride | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ride | would | they | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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 · ← Mova's choice
the merchant's house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 merchant | case |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the bishop's palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bishop | det |
| 2 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bishop | case |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the nobleman's estate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 estate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 nobleman | case |
| 4 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/872-pg27200-part83/t8/