Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…
Real talk, how many fit birds were in the window?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: many fit birds · What happens: be · To what, where: window
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 window | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birds | amod |
| 6 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birds | amod |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 window | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 window | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | many fit birds | the window | 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
Three and twenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 twenty | cc |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Three | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four and twenty fit birds in silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fit | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 twenty | cc |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Four | conj |
| 4 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fit | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 silk | case |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | Four | birds | silk | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in silk=Trajectory |
Option 3
Twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Four and twenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 twenty | cc |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Four | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1324-pg3454-part49/t10/