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Test 11 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

«I wandered lonely as a cloud» — Leo says the poem is about clouds. What's closer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo, poem · What happens: wander, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: «I wandered lonely as a cloud» — Leo says the poem is about clouds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wandered	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
10	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 poem	det
13	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clouds	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 clouds	cop
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 clouds	case
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 says	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander in a quote	past	Leo					as a cloud; lonely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Leo						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the poem					about clouds	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.

Sentence 2: What's closer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 closer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's about rain falling on the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rain	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rain	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 rain	case
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rain	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 fields	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about rain	tree rules
2	fall	gerund	rain not said here			the fields			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on field=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's about the poet, who felt alone like a drifting cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poet	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poet	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 poet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poet	det
5	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poet	acl:relcl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 felt	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 cloud	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloud	det
12	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 cloud	amod
13	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about the poet	tree rules
2	feel	past	the poet					like a drifting cloud; alone property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like cloud=Theme
3	drift	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It's a weather report for the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 report	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 report	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 report	det
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 report	compound
5	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 report	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a weather report				for the hills	tree rules

Option 4

It's about a lonely cloud that wandered off over the hills and got lost

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cloud	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cloud	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	6 cloud	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloud	amod
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wandered	nsubj
8	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cloud	acl:relcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 wandered	compound:prt
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wandered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wandered	conj
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wandered	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a lonely cloud				about property	tree rules
2	wander off	past	a lonely cloud			the hills			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory
3	get	past	a lonely cloud not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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