Test 8 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…
Was the queen's posy just flowers, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: posy flowers · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: posy
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 posy | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 posy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 queen | case |
| 5 | posy | posy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowers | compound |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 flowers | advmod |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 innit | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the queen's posy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | posy flowers | 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
Yeah, just flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 flowers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flowers | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 flowers | advmod |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, a bunch of dried bread crusts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bunch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bunch | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bunch | det |
| 4 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crusts | case |
| 6 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 crusts | amod |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crusts | compound |
| 8 | crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bunch | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Nah, a bunch of silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bunch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bunch | det |
| 4 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 coins | case |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coins | compound |
| 7 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bunch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a little bunch of jewel flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 bunch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bunch | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bunch | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bunch | amod |
| 5 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 7 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowers | compound |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bunch | nmod |
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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