Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

wait, why'd the flowers rename her Maia, was Tiny too cringe?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, flowers · What happens: wait, rename, be · To what, where: Maia

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rename	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 rename	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 rename	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rename	nsubj
7	rename	rename	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Maia	nmod:poss
9	Maia	Maia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rename	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Tiny	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Tiny	cop
12	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rename	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 cringe	advmod
14	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Tiny	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rename	present	the flowers	her Maia		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent maia=Result
3	is	past	the flowers not said here		tiny property	tree rules

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

nope, they just liked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 liked	advmod
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	they	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2

yeah, they thought Tiny sounded ugly for a bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sounded	nsubj
6	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sounded	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 bride	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sound	past	Tiny					for a bride; ugly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they said Tiny was ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ugly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ugly	cop
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Tiny					ugly property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, they said Tiny was ugly and too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ugly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ugly	cop
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 small	cc
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 small	advmod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ugly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Tiny	ugly property	tree rules
3	be		Tiny not said here		tree rules

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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