Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…
wait, what did the queen see spring out of the page?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, queen · What happens: wait, see · To what, where: page
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 see | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 page | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 page | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 page | det |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past · do-support | the queen | the page | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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
a crimson bud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bud | det |
| 2 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bud | amod |
| 3 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a lovely rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rose | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | amod |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a rose as white as snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rose | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 white | case |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rose | amod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 snow | case |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a glowing rose with golden petals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rose | det |
| 2 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rose | amod |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 petals | case |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 petals | amod |
| 6 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/886-pg27200-part97/t5/