Test 2 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…
wait, how did the wife react to the cow, like was she mad?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: wait, react, be
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» 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 react | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 react | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 react | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 react | nsubj |
| 7 | react | react | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wait | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cow | det |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 react | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mad | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 mad | case |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mad | cop |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mad | nsubj |
| 15 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 react | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | 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 | react | past · do-support | the wife | to the cow | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to cow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wife | mad property | tree rules |
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
yeah, she was calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 calm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 calm | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 calm | cop |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | calm property | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, she was buzzing, mint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 buzzing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 buzzing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buzzing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buzzing | aux |
| 5 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mint | punct |
| 7 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buzzing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past · progressive | she | mint | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, she was buzzing, mint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 buzzing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buzzing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buzzing | aux |
| 5 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mint | punct |
| 7 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buzzing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past · progressive | she | mint | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mint=Theme |
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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