Test 8 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures
«why's the owl in a boat with a cat, that's not even possible». What kind of poem is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, poem · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: owl, boat, kind
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: «why's the owl in a boat with a cat, that's not even possible».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 owl | punct |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 owl | advmod |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 owl | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 owl | det |
| 5 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owl | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boat | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 possible | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 possible | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 possible | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 possible | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 possible | advmod |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 owl | parataxis |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 possible | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the owl | a boat with a cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | that | possible 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.
Sentence 2: What kind of poem is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 poem | case |
| 4 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kind | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | poem | what kind | of poem | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A true diary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 diary | det |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 diary | amod |
| 3 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A science report
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 report | det |
| 2 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 report | compound |
| 3 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nonsense verse, silly on purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nonsense | nonsense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 verse | amod |
| 2 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 silly | punct |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 verse | amod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 purpose | case |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silly | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A newspaper article
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 article | det |
| 2 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 article | compound |
| 3 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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