Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…
Which picture was the lady on, the one with the powdered hair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, powder · To what, where: lady
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 picture | det |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picture | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 lady | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picture | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hair | det |
| 12 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hair | amod |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 picture | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
On the wall by the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Near the back of the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 3 back | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 back | det |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 back | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
On the wall, near the centre of the room, above the old fireplace
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 centre | punct |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 centre | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 centre | det |
| 7 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centre | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fireplace | punct |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 fireplace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fireplace | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fireplace | amod |
| 15 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
On the wall near the centre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 centre | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 centre | det |
| 6 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | nmod |
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.
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