Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…
Wot did the bear end up doin' wiv the gun, proper mad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot, bear · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: doin
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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 | Wot | Wot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bear | det |
| 4 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nsubj |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 end | compound:prt |
| 7 | doin | doin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 wiv | punct |
| 9 | wiv | wiv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doin | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gun | det |
| 11 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wiv | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mad | punct |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mad | amod |
| 14 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doin | appos |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Wot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | end up | present | the bear | doin and wiv the gun | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient doin=Result |
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
firin' it off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | firin | firin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 firin | conj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 firin | compound:prt |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
wavin' it all around the barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wavin | wavin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 wavin | obl |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 barn | advmod |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 barn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 barn | det |
| 7 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wavin | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wavin | gerund | it | the barn | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
holdin' it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | holdin | holdin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 holdin | conj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 holdin | compound |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
holdin' it up proper like a soldier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | holdin | holdin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 holdin | conj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 holdin | compound |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 1 holdin | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 soldier | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 holdin | nmod |
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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