Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…
the toad's son, what did he say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toad · What happens: say · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 toad | det |
| 2 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 toad | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 say | obj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | toad | the toad's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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
Croak, croak, croak, loudly from the marsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 croak | punct |
| 3 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Croak | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 croak | punct |
| 5 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Croak | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 marsh | punct |
| 7 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 10 marsh | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 marsh | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 marsh | det |
| 10 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Croak | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Croak, croak, croak, then he hopped away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hopped | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 croak | punct |
| 3 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Croak | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 croak | punct |
| 5 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Croak | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Croak | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hopped | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hopped | nsubj |
| 9 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 hopped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop away | past | Croak and croak and croak | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Croak, croak, croak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 croak | punct |
| 3 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Croak | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 croak | punct |
| 5 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Croak | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Chirp, chirp, chirp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chirp | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chirp | punct |
| 3 | chirp | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chirp | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chirp | punct |
| 5 | chirp | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chirp | 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.
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