Test 12 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…
Wait, what did the nightingale's song sound like it promised?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, promise · To what, where: song sound, sound
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nightingale | det |
| 6 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 nightingale | case |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | compound |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 promised | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 did | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | 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 | the nightingale's song sound | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | participle · passive | sound | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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
a storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
good fortune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fortune | amod |
| 2 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a safe return
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 return | det |
| 2 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 return | amod |
| 3 | return | return | 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.
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