Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…
Did the will say she had to be thinking of aunt every Saturday?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, have, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 say | det |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 thinking | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thinking | aux |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 aunt | case |
| 11 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thinking | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Saturday | det |
| 13 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thinking | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | she | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive · progressive | she not said here | saturday | of aunt | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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
yep, one rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 rule | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 rule | nummod |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nope, there were two rules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 were | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 rules | nummod |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 were | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two rules | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yep, that was the only rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 7 rule | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rule | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rule | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rule | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rule | amod |
| 7 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the only rule | tree rules |
Option 4
nope, no rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 rule | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 rule | det |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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