Test 5 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…
no cap, what did jurgen bonk his head on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jurgen · What happens: bonk · To what, where: cap
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bonk | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 bonk | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bonk | aux |
| 6 | jurgen | jurgen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bonk | nsubj |
| 7 | bonk | bonk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cap | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bonk | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bonk | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bonk | past · do-support | jurgen | no cap | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient head=Result |
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
a wooden spar beam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 beam | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beam | amod |
| 3 | spar | spar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beam | amod |
| 4 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the sharp edge of a heavy iron anchor flung by the waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 edge | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 edge | amod |
| 3 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 anchor | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 anchor | det |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 anchor | amod |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anchor | compound |
| 8 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 edge | nmod |
| 9 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 anchor | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 waves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waves | det |
| 12 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flung | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | participle | a heavy iron anchor not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a big iron anchor edge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 edge | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 edge | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anchor | compound |
| 4 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 edge | compound |
| 5 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the iron ship's bell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bell | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 ship | case |
| 5 | bell | bell | 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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