Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…
no cap, what did Helga keep staring at while she waited?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helga, cap · What happens: keep, stare, wait · To what, where: cap
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 keep | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 6 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cap | conj |
| 8 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 staring | obl |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 waited | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waited | nsubj |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 staring | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · do-support | Helga | no cap | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | no cap not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | past | Helga | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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
the stork pair flying over the monument
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pair | det |
| 2 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pair | compound |
| 3 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 pair | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 monument | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monument | det |
| 7 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | the stork pair not said here | the monument | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over monument=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a silver light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a glowing star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
a glowing star above the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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