Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…
Lush, what's the snow man's gob made of, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lush · What happens: be, make, innit · To what, where: gob
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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 | Lush | Lush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 innit | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gob | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 gob | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gob | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | compound |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gob | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | gob | gob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lush | appos |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gob | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lush | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lush | the snow man's gob | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the snow man's gob not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | Lush | 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 cracked tin cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cup | det |
| 2 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cup | amod |
| 3 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cup | compound |
| 4 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An old broken rake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rake | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rake | amod |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rake | amod |
| 4 | rake | rake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
An old broken pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pot | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pot | amod |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pot | amod |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
An old broken rake from the back garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rake | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rake | amod |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rake | amod |
| 4 | rake | rake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | compound |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rake | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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