Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga i…
lowkey, what did Helga think she was looking at in the water?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helga · What happens: think, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 894 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga is freed and finds her mother» 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 think | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 think | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 5 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looking | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looking | aux |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 think | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | Helga | lowkey vocative | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | Helga | at the water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at water=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
her mother's face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mother | case |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
her own reflection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reflection | amod |
| 3 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
her own reflection looking back from the lilies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reflection | amod |
| 3 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 looking | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 lilies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lilies | det |
| 8 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | her own reflection | from the lilies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from lily=Theme |
Option 4
her own reflection in the still water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reflection | amod |
| 3 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 water | advmod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflection | 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/894-pg27200-part105/t12/