Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the…
Ida's flowers were dancing in the middle of the night, bruv, what did the yellow lily do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: flowers, yellow lily · What happens: dance, do · To what, where: middle, bruv
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 874 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the flowers dance at night while Sophy the doll gives up her bed» 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 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ida | case |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dancing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dancing | aux |
| 5 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dancing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dancing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lily | det |
| 18 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lily | amod |
| 19 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bruv | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dancing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · progressive | Ida's flowers | the middle of the night | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | the yellow lily | bruv | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
sat by the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sat | sat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 window | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 window | det |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sat | imperative | you not said here | by the window | tree rules |
Option 2
danced with Sophy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 Sophy | case |
| 3 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 danced | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle | with Sophy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
played the piano
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 piano | det |
| 3 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 played | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the piano | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Theme |
Option 4
played the piano for everyone in the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 piano | det |
| 3 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 played | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 everyone | case |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 played | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 played | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the piano | the room | for everyone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent piano=Theme for everyone=Eventuality |
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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