Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished…
lol, what's Corsor bragging about, the roses or the rain?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Corsor · What happens: brag
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 885 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished towns and wakes up knowing his lesson» 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 bragging | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 bragging | obj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bragging | aux |
| 5 | Corsor | Corsor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bragging | nsubj |
| 6 | bragging | brag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 bragging | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 roses | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roses | det |
| 10 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bragging | parataxis |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 rain | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rain | det |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roses | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bragging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brag speech: other | present · progressive | Corsor | about 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 · ← Mova's choice
the rain by its gates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rain | det |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 gates | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gates | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rain | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain | rain's gates | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: by=agent |
Option 2
the rain on its roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rain | det |
| 2 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 roof | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 roof | nmod:poss |
| 5 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the roses by its gates and walls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roses | det |
| 2 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 gates | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gates | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roses | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walls | cc |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gates | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the roses by its gates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roses | det |
| 2 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 gates | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gates | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 roses | nmod |
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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