Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…
Yo, what's the mermaid got in her hands?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mermaid · What happens: be, get · To what, where: hands
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mermaid | det |
| 6 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | past | the mermaid | mermaid's hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 pearl and a harp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pearl | det |
| 2 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 harp | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 harp | det |
| 5 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pearl | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a long string of pearls and a small blue bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 string | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 string | amod |
| 3 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pearls | case |
| 5 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 string | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bottle | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bottle | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bottle | amod |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bottle | amod |
| 10 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 string | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a golden mirror and a silver comb with pearls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mirror | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mirror | amod |
| 3 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 comb | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 comb | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 comb | amod |
| 7 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mirror | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pearls | case |
| 9 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 comb | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a mirror and a comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 comb | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 comb | det |
| 5 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mirror | 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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