Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…
Wait, what pulls the Fairy's chariot this time?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, pull · To what, where: chariot
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulls | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pulls | nsubj |
| 4 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fairy | case |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulls | obj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulls | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pull | present | the Fairy's chariot | time | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme |
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
swans, not geese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 geese | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 geese | advmod |
| 4 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 swans | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
winged horses from the sea-king's stables
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | winged | wing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 winged | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stables | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sea | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stables | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 winged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wing | past | horses | the sea king's stables | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from stable=Trajectory |
Option 3
a team of griffins with bat wings and hooves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 team | det |
| 2 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 griffins | case |
| 4 | griffins | griffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 team | nmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wings | compound |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 griffins | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hooves | cc |
| 9 | hooves | hoove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
swans, not bats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bats | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bats | advmod |
| 4 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 swans | 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.
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