Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

Fr, what did she first think the swans were?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: think, be · To what, where: Fr, swans

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 think	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 think	advmod
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fr	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swans	det
9	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	obj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swans	cop
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	she	Fr				first property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	is a	past		the swans					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

ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

spray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

foam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	foam	foam	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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