Test 10 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures
A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone. What is its mood?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poem · What happens: have, be · To what, where: slow beat, mood
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English 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: A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beat | det |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beat | amod |
| 6 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 words | cc |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beat | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 grey | case |
| 10 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 empty | punct |
| 12 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grey | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 alone | cc |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grey | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a poem | a slow beat and words like grey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=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: What is its mood?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mood | cop |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mood | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | poem's mood | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Scary and loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 loud | cc |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Scary | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sad and lonely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lonely | cc |
| 3 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sad | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Happy and excited
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 excited | cc |
| 3 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Happy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Funny and silly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 silly | cc |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Funny | 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.
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