Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mo…
So the owl was gonna eat her in winter? Proper sneaky, mate.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: owl · What happens: eat · To what, where: her
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 992 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mouse's adventures end in a wedding and a critics' complaint, then storks appear on a roof» 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
Sentence 1: So the owl was gonna eat her in winter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 eat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owl | det |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gonna | cop |
| 5 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 owl | conj |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | infinitive | the owl | her = she | winter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: Proper sneaky, mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 sneaky | advmod |
| 2 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sneaky | vocative |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sneaky | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yeah, she meant to save her for later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 meant | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meant | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meant | nsubj |
| 4 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 save | mark |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 meant | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 save | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 later | case |
| 9 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 save | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | she | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | her = she | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme for late=Source |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she planned to keep her in reserve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 planned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 planned | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 planned | nsubj |
| 4 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 planned | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 reserve | case |
| 9 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | past | she | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | her = she | reserve | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in reserve=Location |
Option 3
Yeah, she wanted to store her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 store | mark |
| 6 | store | store | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 store | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | store not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | her = she | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, she planned to keep her in reserve for the cold winter months ahead
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 planned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 planned | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 planned | nsubj |
| 4 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 planned | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 reserve | case |
| 9 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 months | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 months | det |
| 12 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 months | amod |
| 13 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 months | compound |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | obl |
| 15 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 6 keep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | past | she | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | her = she | reserve | month | ahead property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in reserve=Location |
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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