Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…
Mate, where did he wake up after all that madness?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: wake up
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wake | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 wake | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wake | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wake | nsubj |
| 6 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 wake | compound:prt |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 madness | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 madness | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 madness | det |
| 11 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wake | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past · do-support | he | after all madness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
Stuck in a carriage on the motorway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 carriage | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 carriage | det |
| 4 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stuck | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 motorway | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 motorway | det |
| 7 | motorway | motorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hanging off the posting-house roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 roof | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 4 | posting | posting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 posting | punct |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roof | compound |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang off | gerund | the house roof | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient |
Option 3
Chilling in the lecturer's room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chilling | chill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lecturer | det |
| 4 | lecturer | lecturer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 lecturer | case |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chilling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | gerund | the lecturer's room | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sitting on top of the box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sitting | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 box | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | top of the box | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
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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