Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…
so is Anna's play a tragedy or a domestic drama?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: play
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 play | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 play | cop |
| 3 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 play | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Anna | case |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tragedy | det |
| 7 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | appos |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 drama | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drama | det |
| 10 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drama | amod |
| 11 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tragedy | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Anna's play | tree rules |
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 long musical comedy about a sailor and a prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 comedy | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comedy | amod |
| 3 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comedy | amod |
| 4 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 sailor | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sailor | det |
| 7 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comedy | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prince | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comedy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A mystery play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 play | det |
| 2 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | compound |
| 3 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Domestic drama
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drama | amod |
| 2 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A tragedy about a lost crown and a dying king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tragedy | det |
| 2 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 crown | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crown | det |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 crown | amod |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tragedy | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 king | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crown | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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