Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…
Who sold German beer in the booths?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sell · To what, where: German beer, booths
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 sold | nsubj |
| 2 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beer | amod |
| 4 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sold | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 booths | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 booths | det |
| 7 | booths | booth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sold | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 sold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | German beer | the booths | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=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
Anna
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hysken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hysken | Hysken | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The clerks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clerks | det |
| 2 | clerks | clerk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Danes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Danes | det |
| 2 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/915-pg27200-part126/t11/