Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…
Whit wis the hawk's big line about things being bad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, things · What happens: wi, be · To what, where: big line
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wis | nsubj |
| 2 | wis | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hawk | det |
| 4 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 line | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 hawk | case |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 line | amod |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wis | obj |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 bad | mark |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bad | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bad | cop |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 line | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wis | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi | present | Whit | the hawk's big line | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | things | the hawk's big line not said here | bad 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
always as good as before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 good | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 good | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
never so bad but worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 bad | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 bad | advmod |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 worse | cc |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 bad | 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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