Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…
Yo, what was that big old stone in the yard even for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 920 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 for | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 for | mark |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 for | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 yard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 yard | det |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | nmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 for | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sitting on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Sitting | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit on | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Drying the copper pans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drying | dry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pans | det |
| 3 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pans | compound |
| 4 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | gerund | the copper pans | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pan=Result |
Option 3
Scrubbing the cooking pots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scrubbing | scrub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pots | det |
| 3 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pots | compound |
| 4 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Scrubbing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scrub | gerund | the cooking pots | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source |
Option 4
Drying the linen cloths
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drying | dry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloths | det |
| 3 | linen | linen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloths | amod |
| 4 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | gerund | the linen cloths | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cloth=Result |
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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