Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…
Wait, what did the sparrows lowkey think the painting was?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sparrows lowkey, painting · What happens: wait, do, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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 sparrows | det |
| 6 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lowkey | compound |
| 7 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 painting | det |
| 10 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | 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 | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | sparrows lowkey | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | the painting | 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 · ← Mova's choice
a painted door, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 door | amod |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 door | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | a painted door | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
a real rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rose | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | amod |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nothing, just looks like something
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nothing | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 looks | advmod |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 looks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | nothing | like something | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
a bird on a branch in the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 branch | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bird | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bird | 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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