Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…
What did the sweep say she'd be, like, after the wedding?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sweep · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sweep | det |
| 4 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wedding | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wedding | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wedding | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wedding | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 wedding | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 wedding | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wedding | det |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the sweep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | would | sweep | like the wedding | 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
a lady of the Major-general's house and a proper china wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 general | det |
| 5 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 general | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Major | punct |
| 7 | general | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 general | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 12 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wife | amod |
| 13 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | compound |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a lady of the household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 household | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 household | det |
| 5 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a lady of the Major-general
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 general | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 general | det |
| 5 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 general | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Major | punct |
| 7 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a lady of the Major-general's court with a grand silk sash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 general | det |
| 5 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 general | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Major | punct |
| 7 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 general | case |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sash | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sash | det |
| 12 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sash | amod |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sash | compound |
| 14 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | nmod |
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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