Test 8 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…

is the dwarf's cottage like a normal house or like a weird place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cottage

This is test 8 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cottage	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwarf	det
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cottage	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dwarf	case
5	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cottage	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 place	cc
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cottage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the dwarf's cottage				like a normal house or a weird place	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 thatched cottage past a muddy ditch and a dark forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cottage	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cottage	amod
3	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cottage	amod
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	8 ditch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ditch	det
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ditch	amod
8	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cottage	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forest	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 forest	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forest	amod
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ditch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thatch	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a tiny thatched cottage past a muddy ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cottage	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cottage	amod
3	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cottage	amod
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	8 ditch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ditch	det
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ditch	amod
8	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cottage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thatch	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a tiny thatched cottage past a muddy ditch with a yellow door and bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cottage	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cottage	amod
3	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cottage	amod
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	8 ditch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ditch	det
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ditch	amod
8	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cottage	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 door	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 door	amod
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ditch	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bells	cc
14	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 door	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thatch	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a simple cottage behind a muddy wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cottage	det
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cottage	amod
3	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 wall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
6	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wall	amod
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cottage	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.

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