Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…
what made the brothers want to go back home?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: make, want, go back
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the brothers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a green leaf from home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leaf | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaf | amod |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaf | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a gift from their father
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 father | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gift | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a green leaf from home that fell on each of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leaf | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaf | amod |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaf | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 fell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 each | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a green leaf from home | each | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on each=Location |
Option 4
a bird's song from home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing | a bird | home | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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