Test 5 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…
who even is this yellow dwarf guy, he's so random?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: yellow dwarf guy
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1421 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud princess and a queen's bargain with a dwarf» 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 | 7 guy | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 guy | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 guy | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 guy | nsubj |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guy | amod |
| 6 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guy | amod |
| 7 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 random | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 random | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 random | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 random | advmod |
| 12 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guy | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 guy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | yellow dwarf guy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | he | random 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
a tiny weirdo living in a big palace by the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 weirdo | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weirdo | amod |
| 3 | weirdo | weirdo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 weirdo | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | a tiny weirdo not said here | a big palace | by the sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
Option 2
a tiny weirdo who lives in an orange tree and hates the queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 weirdo | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weirdo | amod |
| 3 | weirdo | weirdo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hates | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 weirdo | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 8 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tree | amod |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lives | cc |
| 11 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hates | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a tiny weirdo | a orange tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | hate | present | a tiny weirdo | the queen | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a tiny weirdo living in an orange tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 weirdo | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weirdo | amod |
| 3 | weirdo | weirdo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 weirdo | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | a tiny weirdo not said here | a orange tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
Option 4
a rich knight from the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knight | nmod |
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/1421-pg503-part8/t5/