Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

dude, why was the room pitch black when Tuk got back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tuk · What happens: be, get back · To what, where: room pitch

This is test 9 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 black	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pitch	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pitch	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pitch	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pitch	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pitch	compound
7	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dude	conj
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 black	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 black	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the room pitch					tree rules
2	get back	past	Tuk						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

no fire in the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no money for a candle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 candle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 candle	det
5	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 money	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

it was dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					dark property	tree rules

Option 4

no candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 candles	det
2	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

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