Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…
so what time did the coach roll up, like midnight-ish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: time, coach · What happens: do, roll up
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coach | det |
| 6 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roll | nsubj |
| 7 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 roll | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ish | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 ish | case |
| 11 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ish | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 midnight | punct |
| 13 | ish | ish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roll | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | roll up | present | the coach | like midnight ish | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 right answer
New Year's Eve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Year | compound |
| 2 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Eve | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Year | case |
| 4 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the very end of a long winter's day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 end | advmod |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 winter | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 winter | amod |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 winter | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Christmas Eve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Christmas | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the last night of the old year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | 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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