Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…
who was watching her from the tree, bro?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: watch · To what, where: her, tree
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watching | aux |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watching | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bro | punct |
| 9 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 watching | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | her = she | the tree and bro | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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
a band of hunters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hunters | case |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 band | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a group of crows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 group | det |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 crows | case |
| 4 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 group | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a hawk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a flock of magpies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flock | det |
| 2 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 magpies | case |
| 4 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flock | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/893-pg27200-part104/t8/