Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

wait, what's the dog's name when he was a little pup?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: name, little pup

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 name	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 name	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dog	case
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 pup	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pup	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pup	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pup	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pup	amod
14	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the dog's name	tree rules
3	is a	past	dog	a little pup	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

Tomi, sweet Tomi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomi	Tomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Tomi	punct
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tomi	amod
4	Tomi	Tomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tomi	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ami, sweet Ami

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ami	Ami	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ami	punct
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Ami	amod
4	Ami	Ami	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ami	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Rico, little Rico

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rico	Rico	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Rico	punct
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Rico	amod
4	Rico	Rico	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Rico	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Bo, sweet Bo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bo	Bo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Bo	punct
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bo	amod
4	Bo	Bo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bo	conj

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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