Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…
What did the husband reckon was worth it, like, being alive?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: husband · What happens: reckon, be
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 reckon | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reckon | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 husband | det |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 worth | cop |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reckon | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 worth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 alive | punct |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 alive | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 alive | cop |
| 13 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 worth | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the husband | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the husband not said here | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the husband not said here | alive property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
one perfect moment, that makes it worth it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 moment | nummod |
| 2 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 worth | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | one perfect moment | it | worth property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
Option 2
a long life full of wealth and status
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 life | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wealth | case |
| 6 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 status | cc |
| 8 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wealth | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his new office and his fine title, that's enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 office | nmod:poss |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 office | amod |
| 3 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 title | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 title | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 title | amod |
| 7 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 office | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enough | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 enough | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 enough | cop |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 office | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | title | his = he | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
one good day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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