Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…

Ayy, the old lady kept them three girls spinning, but what stuff?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ayy, three girls · What happens: keep, spin · To what, where: them

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	obj
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 girls	nummod
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obj
10	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 girls	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 kept	parataxis
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Ayy	them = they					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme girl=Attribute
2	spin	gerund	three girls not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

Wool, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wool	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Gold flax, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flax	compound
2	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flax	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Linen, bruv, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Linen	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Linen	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Wool, proper, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bruv	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 proper	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wool	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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