Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…
Was that thread knotty or what, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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 | was | SCONJ | _ | 4 knotty | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 knotty | nsubj |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knotty | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | knotty | knotty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 what | cc |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 knotty | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | vocative |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 knotty | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it never tied itself in knots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 tied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tied | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 tied | advmod |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 tied | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 knots | case |
| 8 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tie | past | it | itself = it | knots | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
Option 2
No, it stayed neat and straight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 straight | cc |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 neat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | it | neat property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
No, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, it tangled up badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 tangled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tangled | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tangled | nsubj |
| 4 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 tangled | compound:prt |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 tangled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle up | past | it | badly property | tree rules |
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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