Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…
why's the lamp scared about the town hall?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lamp · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 scared | advmod |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lamp | det |
| 4 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hall | compound |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the lamp | about the town hall; scared 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 · ← Mova's choice
the mayor might melt him down into a pot, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 melt | aux |
| 4 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 melt | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 melt | compound:prt |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt down | might | the mayor | him = he | a pot and innit | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into pot=Product |
Option 2
the mayor could melt him, yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 melt | aux |
| 4 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 melt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 melt | punct |
| 7 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 melt | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | could | the mayor | him = he | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the mayor might melt him down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 melt | aux |
| 4 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 melt | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 melt | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt down | might | the mayor | him = he | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
Option 4
the council might melt him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 council | det |
| 2 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melt | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 melt | aux |
| 4 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 melt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | might | the council | him = he | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=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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