Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…
wait, what was the book about, like a school book?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: book
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» 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 | _ | 6 book | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 book | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 book | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 wait | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 book | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 book | compound |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | like a school book; about property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the book | 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
a big old book about the sea, the ice, and all the boulders in the north
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 book | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 book | amod |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 book | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ice | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ice | det |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 book | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 boulders | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 boulders | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 boulders | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boulders | det |
| 15 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 book | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 north | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 north | det |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boulders | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a history book about the old kings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 book | compound |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 kings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kings | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kings | amod |
| 7 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 book | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a science book about the stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 book | compound |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 stars | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stars | det |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 book | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a geology book about the boulders and the earth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 2 | geology | geology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 book | compound |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 boulders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boulders | det |
| 6 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 book | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 earth | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boulders | conj |
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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