Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…
which lady smelt of wild-thyme and made the sentry sneeze?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady smelt, sentry · What happens: make, sneeze · To what, where: sentry
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smelt | compound |
| 3 | smelt | smelt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 thyme | case |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thyme | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wild | punct |
| 7 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smelt | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sentry | det |
| 11 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | lady smelt of wild thyme | the sentry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sneeze | infinitive | the sentry not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Jan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
June
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
May
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
July
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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