Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…
yo, does the dog think the snowman is a baby?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, snowman · What happens: think, be · To what, where: baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 think | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snowman | det |
| 8 | snowman | snowman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baby | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 baby | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | the dog | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the snowman | a baby | 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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, born yesterday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 born | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | yesterday | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
yeah, a baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 baby | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 baby | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, born in May
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 born | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 May | case |
| 5 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | may | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
nah, born last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 born | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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