Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2…
so, what's needed to be a poet, fam?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: need, be · To what, where: poet
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» 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 | _ | 5 needed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 so | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 needed | aux:pass |
| 5 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 poet | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 poet | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 poet | det |
| 9 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needed | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fam | punct |
| 11 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poet | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 needed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present · passive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | a poet and fam | 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
understanding, imagination, feeling, and a whole lot of patience and old books
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagination | punct |
| 3 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 understanding | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 understanding | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lot | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lot | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lot | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lot | amod |
| 10 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 understanding | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 patience | case |
| 12 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lot | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 books | cc |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 books | amod |
| 15 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 understanding | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
talent, practice, and good luck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 practice | punct |
| 3 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 talent | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 luck | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 luck | cc |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 luck | amod |
| 7 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 talent | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
understanding, imagination, and feeling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagination | punct |
| 3 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 understanding | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feeling | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 feeling | cc |
| 6 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 understanding | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
wit, bravery, and a sharp mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bravery | punct |
| 3 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wit | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mind | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mind | det |
| 7 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mind | amod |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wit | conj |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/990-pg27200-part201/t12/