Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…
wait, who's the first one spreading the rumour?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, first one · What happens: wait, be, spread · To what, where: first one, rumour
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 8 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 one | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rumour | det |
| 10 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spreading | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | 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 | is a | present | the first one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spread | gerund | the first one not said here | the rumour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=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
The white hen by the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hen | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hen | amod |
| 3 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The merry hen by the gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hen | det |
| 2 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hen | amod |
| 3 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The hen next to the merry one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 2 hen | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 next | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The hen that sleeps nearest the cock and always gossips at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sleeps | nsubj |
| 4 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hen | acl:relcl |
| 5 | nearest | nearest | ADP | _ | 7 cock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cock | det |
| 7 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeps | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gossips | cc |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 gossips | advmod |
| 10 | gossips | gossip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cock | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 dawn | case |
| 12 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | the hen | dawn | nearest the cock and gossips | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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