Test 10 · ★ · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

so the old lady was just a random beggar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: be · To what, where: random beggar

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» 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	so	so	ADV	_	9 beggar	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beggar	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beggar	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 beggar	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beggar	det
8	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beggar	amod
9	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 beggar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old lady	a random beggar					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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she's a fairy, the pin proved it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fairy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fairy	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fairy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fairy	det
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proved	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fairy	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pin	det
9	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 proved	nsubj
10	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 proved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a fairy					tree rules
2	prove	past	a fairy	pin					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

yeah, just a beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 beggar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beggar	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 beggar	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beggar	det
5	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, she was just a sick old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 woman	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 woman	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a sick old woman					tree rules

Option 4

nah, she's a nun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 nun	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nun	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nun	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nun	det
6	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a nun					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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