Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

Lowkey, what did the forest mice think about the soup idea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lowkey, mice · What happens: do, think · To what, where: forest

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forest	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 idea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 idea	det
11	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 idea	compound
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey	the forest					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	present	mice	the forest not said here				about the soup idea	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot forest=Theme

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

that the soup problem could never be solved by any mouse living at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 solved	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 problem	compound
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 solved	nsubj:pass
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 solved	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 solved	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 solved	aux:pass
8	solved	solve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 mouse	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 mouse	det
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 solved	obl
12	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 mouse	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not solve	could · passive	any mouse	the soup problem					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	live	gerund	any mouse not said here			all			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

nobody knew the answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	nobody	the answer					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it could never be solved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 solved	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 solved	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 solved	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 solved	aux:pass
5	solved	solve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not solve	could · passive		it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

it was far too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hard	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hard	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					far, hard property	tree rules

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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