Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…
Yo, so the storks just ditched the roof and bounced to Egypt, right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks · What happens: ditch, bounce · To what, where: roof, Egypt
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 ditched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ditched | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storks | det |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ditched | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 ditched | advmod |
| 7 | ditched | ditch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ditched | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bounced | cc |
| 11 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ditched | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Egypt | case |
| 13 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bounced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ditched | punct |
| 15 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 ditched | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ditched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ditch | past | the storks | the roof | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bounce | participle | the storks not said here | Egypt | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to egypt=Result |
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
Nah, they went north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | north | north | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | north property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nope, they actually flew to the buffet in Britain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 buffet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 buffet | det |
| 8 | buffet | buffet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Britain | case |
| 10 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | they | Britain | to the buffet; actually property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in britain=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yep, straight to the frog buffet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 7 buffet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 buffet | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 buffet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 buffet | det |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buffet | compound |
| 7 | buffet | buffet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yep, to the Viking hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 5 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hall | compound |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yep | 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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