Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144:…
what was Zephyr holding, cause it looked heavy?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zephyr, it · What happens: hold, look
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 holding | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 holding | aux |
| 3 | Zephyr | Zephyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 holding | nsubj |
| 4 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 6 | cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 8 looked | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 holding | conj |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looked | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 holding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · progressive | Zephyr | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | it | heavy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
a heavy mahogany club with a leather strap on the handle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 club | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 club | amod |
| 3 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 club | compound |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 strap | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 strap | det |
| 7 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strap | compound |
| 8 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 club | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 handle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 handle | det |
| 11 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strap | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a wooden staff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 staff | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 staff | amod |
| 3 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a mahogany club
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 club | det |
| 2 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 club | compound |
| 3 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a mahogany club he had carved from a fallen forest tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 club | det |
| 2 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 club | compound |
| 3 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carved | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carved | aux |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 club | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tree | amod |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past · perfect | he | a mahogany club not said here | a fallen forest tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent club=Product from tree=Material | |||
| 2 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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