Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…
Wha's the quarry depth, roughly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wha · What happens: be · To what, where: quarry depth
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» 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 | Wha | Wha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 depth | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 depth | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 depth | det |
| 4 | quarry | quarry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depth | compound |
| 5 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 roughly | punct |
| 7 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 5 depth | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 depth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Wha | the quarry depth | roughly 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
Half a mile deep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 mile | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mile | det |
| 3 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A quarter of a mile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 quarter | det |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mile | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mile | det |
| 5 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quarter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Roughly a quarter of a mile straight down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 3 quarter | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quarter | det |
| 3 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mile | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mile | det |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quarter | nmod |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 down | advmod |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 quarter | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ten yards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 yards | nummod |
| 2 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1292-pg3454-part17/t12/