Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…
did the book help him figure out the afterlife?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: book, him · What happens: help, figure out · To what, where: him, afterlife
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» 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 | 3 book | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | figure | figure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 figure | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 afterlife | det |
| 9 | afterlife | afterlife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 figure | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | the book | him = he | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | figure out | infinitive | him = he not said here | the afterlife | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afterlife=Topic |
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
Nah, nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 nothing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, it explained everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 explained | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 explained | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 explained | nsubj |
| 4 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 explained | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | it | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
Option 3
Yeah, sort of
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sort | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 sort | fixed |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, those pages were blank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 blank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 pages | det |
| 4 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blank | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blank | cop |
| 6 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that pages | blank property | 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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