Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…
Wait, so Death's basically a gardener, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait · To what, where: gardener
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 996 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gardener | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 gardener | advmod |
| 4 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gardener | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Death | case |
| 6 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 8 gardener | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gardener | det |
| 8 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Wait | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | Death's gardener | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he's a king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 king | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a king | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he's God's gardener, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 gardener | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gardener | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gardener | cop |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gardener | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 God | case |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gardener | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | God's gardener and innit | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, he's just a sad old man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 man | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a sad old man | 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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