Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…
Did the monk's skeleton get a rosary in its hand?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: get · To what, where: skeleton, hand
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 954 «Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a monk, doubts his faith, dies, and centuries later his marble Psyche is dug up» 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 | 5 skeleton | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monk | det |
| 3 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 monk | case |
| 5 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rosary | det |
| 8 | rosary | rosary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the monk's skeleton | rosary's hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rosary=Stimulus |
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
Nah, nothing was there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | nothing | there property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, a book was in the bony hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 hand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hand | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 8 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a book | the bony hand | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, a small cross was on the chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 chest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cross | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cross | amod |
| 5 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chest | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chest | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 chest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chest | det |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a small cross | the chest | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a rosary was put in the bony hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 put | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rosary | det |
| 4 | rosary | rosary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 9 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | a rosary | the bony hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in hand=Destination |
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