Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…
Why couldn't the tin soldier cope with the house, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 cope | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cope | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cope | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cope | det |
| 5 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soldier | compound |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cope | compound |
| 7 | cope | cope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cope | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cope | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cope | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It was too cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | cold property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It was lonely and dead boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lonely | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lonely | cop |
| 3 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dead | cc |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lonely | conj |
| 6 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lonely | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | boring, lonely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 3
The house was quiet and grey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grey | cc |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quiet | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the house not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
The room was dark and noisy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 room | det |
| 2 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dark | cop |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 noisy | cc |
| 6 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dark | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the room | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the room not said here | tree rules |
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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