Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…
Bruv, how did little Marie look at people?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little Marie · What happens: do, look
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Marie | amod |
| 6 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv vocative | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | present | little Marie | at people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at people=Theme |
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
like she was dead saucy and dared them to say a word, with her black eyes
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 saucy | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saucy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saucy | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saucy | amod |
| 5 | saucy | saucy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dared | cc |
| 7 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saucy | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dared | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dared | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saucy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | saucy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dare | past | she not said here | them = they | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | she not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
like she was dead saucy, with her black eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 saucy | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saucy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saucy | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saucy | amod |
| 5 | saucy | saucy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saucy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | saucy property | tree rules |
Option 3
like she was dead rude, with her blue eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 5 rude | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rude | amod |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rude | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | rude property | tree rules |
Option 4
like she was a proper little lady, all sweet and quiet, with her big brown eyes
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lady | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lady | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweet | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lady | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sweet | advmod |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 quiet | cc |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sweet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sweet | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | like a proper little lady | 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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