Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…
Nah, what was the Maypole as big as?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Maypole
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 Maypole | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 Maypole | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Maypole | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Maypole | det |
| 6 | Maypole | maypole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Maypole | amod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 big | fixed |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Maypole | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Maypole | 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 tall oak tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a church bell tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tower | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bell | compound |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tower | compound |
| 4 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a barrel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a ship's mainmast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mainmast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 ship | case |
| 4 | mainmast | mainmast | 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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