Test 12 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…
deadass, what did the merchant look at through his telescope?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: look
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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 | deadass | deadass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 look | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 deadass | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 look | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 telescope | case |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 telescope | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 telescope | nmod:poss |
| 11 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | the merchant | at merchant's telescope; deadass vocative | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at telescope=Theme |
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 lighthouse keeper's lamp across the bay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 keeper | det |
| 2 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeper | compound |
| 3 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 keeper | case |
| 5 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 bay | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bay | det |
| 8 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lamp | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a passing sloop at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sloop | det |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sloop | amod |
| 3 | sloop | sloop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sloop | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
his own ship, the karen bronne
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 ship | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ship | amod |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bronne | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bronne | det |
| 6 | karen | karen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bronne | compound |
| 7 | bronne | bronne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
his son's little boat
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 | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 son | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | 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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