Test 6 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…
Them stones, were they made by proper big fairies or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proper big fairies · What happens: make · To what, where: stones
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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 | Them | them | DET | PronType=Dem | 2 stones | det |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stones | punct |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 fairies | case |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fairies | amod |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fairies | amod |
| 10 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 nah | cc |
| 12 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 made | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | proper big fairies | them stones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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
Wizards, pretty old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wizards | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, just some farmers who piled up the rocks ages ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 farmers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 farmers | advmod |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 farmers | det |
| 5 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 piled | nsubj |
| 7 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 farmers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 piled | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rocks | det |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 piled | obj |
| 11 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 piled | obl |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 piled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | past | some farmers | the rocks | ages | ago property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Korigans, dead old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korigans | Korigan | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Korigans | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 old | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Korigans | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Proper ancient fairies, the korigans, from way back in time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairies | amod |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairies | amod |
| 3 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 korigans | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 korigans | det |
| 6 | korigans | korigan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fairies | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fairies | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 way | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 back | obl |
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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