Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…
ngl the lake in that dream was lowkey wild, what was it doing?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl, lake · What happens: be, do
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wild | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lake | det |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wild | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dream | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lake | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wild | cop |
| 8 | lowkey | lowkey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wild | amod |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 doing | obj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 doing | aux |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 doing | nsubj |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wild | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wild | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ngl | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past · progressive | lake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
dashing and rolling like the sea in a great storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 rolling | cc |
| 3 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 dashing | conj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolling | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 storm | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 storm | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 storm | amod |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dashing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | gerund | a great storm | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | like the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
dashing like the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dashing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | gerund | like the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
dashing like the sea and crashing against the rocks below
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dashing | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 crashing | cc |
| 6 | crashing | crash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 dashing | conj |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 rocks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rocks | det |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crashing | obl |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 6 crashing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | gerund | like the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crash | gerund | the rocks | below property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location |
Option 4
boiling like a pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 pot | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pot | det |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 boiling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | gerund | like a pot | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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