Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…

Mate, where does the story actually start, like, the first bit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: start · To what, where: story

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 start	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 start	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 start	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	obl
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 start	advmod
8	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 start	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bit	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bit	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 bit	amod
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present · do-support	Mate	the story				the first bit obl; actually property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

way down in Spain, not Jutland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 way	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Spain	case
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 way	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Jutland	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 Jutland	advmod
7	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Spain	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

in Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 Spain	case
2	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

way up in Norway, not Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	up	up	ADV	_	1 way	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Norway	case
4	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 way	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Spain	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 Spain	advmod
7	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Norway	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

in Jutland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 Jutland	case
2	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	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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