Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…
Was the couple lowkey happy, or was they gutted and bored?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut, bore · To what, where: couple, they
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 couple | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happy | csubj |
| 4 | lowkey | lowkey | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gutted | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 gutted | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gutted | aux:pass |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gutted | nsubj |
| 10 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 happy | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bored | cc |
| 12 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gutted | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the couple | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gut | past · passive | they | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | bore | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
they were gutted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gutted | aux:pass |
| 3 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | they | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
Option 2
very sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | very | very | ADV | _ | 2 sad | advmod |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
they were pretty bored, kinda sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bored | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bored | cop |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 bored | advmod |
| 4 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sad | punct |
| 6 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 7 sad | advmod |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bored | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | bored, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | they not said here | kinda property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
they were quite happy, dead happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happy | conj |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | they not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | they not said here | tree rules |
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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