Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…
Why was she stuck like that, on the partition with one leg out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stuck | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stuck | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stuck | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 partition | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 partition | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 partition | det |
| 10 | partition | partition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 leg | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 leg | nummod |
| 13 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 partition | nmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 partition | compound:prt |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | like that; stuck 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 door jammed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | jammed | jam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 door | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jam | participle | the door not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the people slammed the door on her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slammed | nsubj |
| 3 | slammed | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slammed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 slammed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slam | past | the people | the door | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent door=Patient her=Result |
Option 3
the crowd closed it on her leg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 closed | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 leg | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leg | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | the crowd | it | crowd's leg | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
the people shut the door on her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 shut | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | the people | the door | tree rules |
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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