Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…
Where'd the mum nip off to at twilight?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: nip off · To what, where: twilight
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 975 «Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is called false and passed from hand to hand» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 nip | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 nip | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mum | det |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nip | nsubj |
| 5 | nip | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 nip | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 twilight | case |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 twilight | case |
| 9 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nip | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 nip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nip off | would | the mum | twilight | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to twilight=Destination |
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
the lottery collector's house on the far side of the village green, near the old mill
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 collector | det |
| 2 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collector | compound |
| 3 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 collector | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 village | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mill | punct |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 mill | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mill | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mill | amod |
| 18 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the bank in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bank | det |
| 2 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bank | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the lottery collector's house on the far side of the village green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 collector | det |
| 2 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collector | compound |
| 3 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 collector | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 village | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the lottery collector
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 collector | det |
| 2 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collector | compound |
| 3 | collector | collector | 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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