Test 7 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clums…
Who was the mysterious bloke who took him to the lake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mysterious bloke · What happens: be, take · To what, where: mysterious bloke, him, lake
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1156 «Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake, a lost-seeming weaver, and a son who gets rich with a magic stone» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bloke | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bloke | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bloke | det |
| 4 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bloke | amod |
| 5 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bloke | acl:relcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bloke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the mysterious bloke | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the mysterious bloke | him = he | the lake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to lake=Destination |
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 right answer
The ogre, obviously, well creepy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ogre | det |
| 2 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 creepy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ogre | punct |
| 4 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 7 creepy | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 obviously | punct |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 creepy | advmod |
| 7 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A tall stranger, innit, creepy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stranger | amod |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 innit | punct |
| 5 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stranger | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 creepy | punct |
| 7 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stranger | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Some weird bloke, mate, dodgy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 bloke | det |
| 2 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bloke | amod |
| 3 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bloke | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dodgy | punct |
| 7 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bloke | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A farmer, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bruv | punct |
| 4 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farmer | 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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