Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…
Wait, what did the ostrich do that was so dumb?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, that · What happens: wait, do, be
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ostrich | det |
| 6 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 dumb | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dumb | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 dumb | advmod |
| 11 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 do | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | that | dumb property | tree rules |
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
Flew up and forgot to pray
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Flew | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forgot | cc |
| 4 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Flew | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pray | mark |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forgot | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | forget | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not pray | to-infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
Dove down without asking for help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Dove | advmod |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 asking | mark |
| 4 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Dove | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 help | case |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Dove not said here | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Flew up without saying God will
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Flew | compound:prt |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 saying | mark |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Flew | advcl |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | obj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 God | aux |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent god=Topic |
Option 4
He flew too high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 high | advmod |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 flew | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | He | high property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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