Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows by the sick…
so the girl kissed the flower, was that cringe or what?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: kiss, be · To what, where: flower, cringe
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 937 «Andersen's Tales, The Pea Blossom: a pea grows by the sick girl's window and gives her hope» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cringe | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cringe | cop |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 cringe | det |
| 10 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cringe | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the girl | the flower | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | that cringe | 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
yeah, kinda cringe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cringe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cringe | punct |
| 3 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 4 cringe | advmod |
| 4 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, she just sat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | she | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, it was a bit weird for sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 weird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 weird | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 weird | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weird | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sure | case |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weird | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | for sure; a bit obl:unmarked; weird property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
nah, it was like a festival to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 festival | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 festival | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 festival | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 festival | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 festival | det |
| 7 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 festival | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | her = she | like a festival | 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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