Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…
Gutted for her, yeah? So what was the couch covered in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, be, cover · To what, where: couch
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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
Sentence 1: Gutted for her, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Gutted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 5 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Gutted | discourse |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | for her = she | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: So what was the couch covered in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 couch | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 couch | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 couch | det |
| 5 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 couch | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 covered | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 couch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the couch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover | participle | the couch not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Heavy cloth of pure gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cloth | amod |
| 2 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gold | amod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Silver cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cloth | amod |
| 2 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Cloth of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 gold | case |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cloth | 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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