Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…
So what's the big news in the paper for George?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: big news, paper
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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 | _ | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 news | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 news | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 paper | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paper | det |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 George | case |
| 11 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 paper | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the big news | the paper for George | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He got made Professor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | He | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary professor=Product |
Option 2
He was given a prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prize | det |
| 5 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | He | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient prize=Theme |
Option 3
He got a new house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | He | a new house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
Option 4
He got made Professor of the Fifth Class at last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Class | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Class | det |
| 7 | Fifth | Fifth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Class | compound |
| 8 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Professor | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | He | last | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary professor=Product |
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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