Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…
is the party a funeral or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: party
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 party | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 funeral | det |
| 5 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 what | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the party | 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
a festival where the music just hadn't started yet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 festival | det |
| 2 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 started | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 music | det |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 started | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 started | advmod |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 festival | acl:relcl |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 started | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not start | past · perfect · passive | the music | yet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 2
a hunt with the baron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hunt | det |
| 2 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 baron | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baron | det |
| 5 | baron | baron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a festival, the music just hadn't started
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 festival | det |
| 2 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 music | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 music | det |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 festival | conj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 started | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 started | advmod |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 festival | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not start | past · perfect | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
a grand festival, but the musicians had been delayed by the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 festival | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 festival | amod |
| 3 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 delayed | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 delayed | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 musicians | det |
| 7 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 delayed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delayed | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 delayed | aux:pass |
| 10 | delayed | delay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 festival | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 rain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rain | det |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delay | past · perfect · passive | the rain | the musicians | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent subject=Source |
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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