Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…
Real talk, who sailed off saying the sky is above him everywhere?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: sail off, say, be · To what, where: sky · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 him | appos |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sailed | nsubj |
| 5 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | acl:relcl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 sailed | compound:prt |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sailed | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saying | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 him | cop |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 13 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 him | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 him | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail off | past | Real talk | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Real talk not said here | the sky | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sky=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | above him = he; everywhere property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
The astronomer who moved to Prague for the emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 astronomer | det |
| 2 | astronomer | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 astronomer | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Prague | case |
| 6 | Prague | Prague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the astronomer | Prague | for the emperor | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prague=Result |
Option 2
Copernicus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copernicus | copernicus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Danish guy who left for Prague
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guy | acl:relcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Prague | case |
| 7 | Prague | Prague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the Danish guy | for Prague | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for prague=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Tycho Brahe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tycho | Tycho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Brahe | Brahe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tycho | flat |
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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