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Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

The clock was dead fast, yeah? How was it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: clock · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 925 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down» 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

Sentence 1: The clock was dead fast, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dead	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the clock					dead, fast 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.

Sentence 2: How was it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 How	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	clock					how property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Always too fast, but the watchman never minded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 fast	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 minded	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 minded	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 watchman	det
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 minded	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 minded	advmod
9	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	past	the watchman						vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Always about ten minutes too fast each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fast	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 ten	advmod
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 minutes	nummod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fast	obl:unmarked
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fast	obl:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Always too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 slow	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 slow	advmod
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Always too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 fast	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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