Test 12 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…
deadass, what did the old maid call her last trip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old maid, maid · What happens: call, trip · To what, where: last trip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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 | deadass | deadass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 call | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 deadass | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 call | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maid | amod |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nsubj |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 trip | nmod:poss |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trip | amod |
| 11 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | the old maid | maid's last trip | deadass vocative | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme trip=Result | |||
| 2 | trip | maid | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
The final walk home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walk | det |
| 2 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walk | amod |
| 3 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 walk | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Her trip
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 trip | nmod:poss |
| 2 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | Her = she | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
The short ride to town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ride | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ride | amod |
| 3 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The long journey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 journey | amod |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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/903-pg27200-part114/t12/