Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…
so the snowdrop felt honoured, kinda cute tbh?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snowdrop · What happens: feel
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snowdrop | det |
| 3 | snowdrop | snowdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | honoured | honoured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cute | punct |
| 7 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 8 cute | advmod |
| 8 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | tbh | tbh | ADV | _ | 8 cute | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the snowdrop | cute, honoured property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a token in the book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 token | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 token | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 token | det |
| 4 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 token | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, a gift in the book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gift | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gift | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gift | det |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gift | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, it was a proper token kept in the book for ages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 token | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 token | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 token | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 token | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 token | amod |
| 7 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 token | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 book | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 ages | case |
| 13 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a proper token | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | a proper token not said here | the book | for ages | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in book=Location |
Option 4
yeah, honoured and pleased, a little token tucked in the book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 honoured | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 honoured | punct |
| 3 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pleased | cc |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 honoured | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 token | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 token | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 token | amod |
| 9 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honoured | obl |
| 10 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 token | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 book | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tucked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour | participle | a little token | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tuck | participle | a little token not said here | the book | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in book=Trajectory |
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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