Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…
Did the snail, like, actually wanna help the world or nah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: help · To what, where: world
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 961 «Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a young Spanish couple sails toward Russia, but calm weather and then a storm blow their ship north» 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 | 9 help | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snail | det |
| 3 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 5 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 1 Did | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 help | advmod |
| 8 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 help | dep |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 nah | cc |
| 13 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 help | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past · do-support | the world | actually property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Beneficiary |
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, he was totally bothered and wanted to help everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 bothered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bothered | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bothered | aux:pass |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 bothered | advmod |
| 6 | bothered | bother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bothered | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bother | past · passive | he | totally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | everyone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he was totally not bothered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 bothered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bothered | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bothered | aux:pass |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 7 bothered | advmod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bothered | advmod |
| 7 | bothered | bother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother | past · passive | he | totally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 3
yeah, he really wanted to help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, he wanted to help the world, but he got scared and went home instead
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 13 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | the world | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | get | past | he | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | go | past | he not said here | home, instead property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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