Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…
ngl, what did the boys shoot the portraits with?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, boys · What happens: do, shoot · To what, where: portraits
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boys | det |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shoot | nsubj |
| 7 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 portraits | det |
| 9 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shoot | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 shoot | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | ngl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shoot | present | the boys | the portraits | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=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
muskets, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muskets | musket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 muskets | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | muskets | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
arrows, obviously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 arrows | punct |
| 3 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 1 arrows | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
crossbows, duh, they used them for shooting practice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crossbows | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 crossbows | punct |
| 3 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 6 used | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 used | nsubj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 used | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 practice | case |
| 9 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 practice | compound |
| 10 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | crossbows | them = they | for shooting practice | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Theme for practice=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
crossbows, duh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crossbows | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 crossbows | punct |
| 3 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 1 crossbows | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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