Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

that stove is black as a crow, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stove · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 stove	det
2	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 black	cop
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 crow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crow	det
7	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 black	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	4 black	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 black	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that stove					as a crow; black property	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

yeah, with a brass knob and a big pipe on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 knob	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knob	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 knob	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knob	det
5	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knob	compound
6	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pipe	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pipe	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pipe	amod
10	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knob	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 top	case
12	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pipe	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, with a brass knob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 knob	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knob	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 knob	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knob	det
5	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knob	compound
6	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it's black as a crow but with a brass door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 black	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 crow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crow	det
8	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 door	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 door	det
12	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					as a crow but a brass door; black property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, with an iron door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 door	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 door	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 door	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	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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