Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

Who was the nosy sprite who turned into a fly, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nosy sprite · What happens: be, turn, innit · To what, where: nosy sprite

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sprite	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sprite	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sprite	det
4	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sprite	amod
5	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sprite	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 fly	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fly	det
10	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sprite	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sprite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the nosy sprite		tree rules
2	turn	past	the nosy sprite		into a fly result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fly=Result
3	innit	infinitive				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

Some cheeky mischievous sprite from the mountains, the one that everyone talks about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sprite	nsubj
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sprite	amod
3	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sprite	amod
4	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sprite	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprite	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 talks	nsubj
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 talks	nsubj
13	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 talks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk about	present	the one					about property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The fairy, the nosy one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fairy	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

That nosy little fairy who loved to play tricks on the villagers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fairy	nsubj
2	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fairy	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fairy	amod
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loved	nsubj
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fairy	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loved	xcomp
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 villagers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 villagers	det
12	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	nosy little fairy						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	nosy little fairy not said here	tricks		the villagers			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Puck, the cheeky sprite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puck	puck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sprite	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sprite	det
4	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sprite	amod
5	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Puck	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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