Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…
innit, what did she say about the dust her dad said would get blown away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: innit, dad · What happens: say, blow away · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» 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 | innit | innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 innit | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 dust | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dust | det |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dad | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 blown | aux |
| 14 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 blown | aux:pass |
| 15 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 blown | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | innit | innit vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | innit's dad | about the dust | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | blow away | would · passive | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
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
it is never destroyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 destroyed | advmod |
| 4 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not destroy | present · passive | it | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
it cannot be undone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 undone | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 undone | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 undone | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 undone | aux:pass |
| 5 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not undo | can · passive | it | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
it is indestructible
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 indestructible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 indestructible | cop |
| 3 | indestructible | indestructible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | indestructible property | tree rules |
Option 4
it can break
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 break | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | aux |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | can | it | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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