Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…
Where was the owl trapped, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: owl · What happens: be, trap, innit · To what, where: owl
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 owl | det |
| 4 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 owl | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 owl | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the owl | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trap | participle | the owl not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | the owl not said here | 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 · ✓ the right answer
In a net the bird-catchers set
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 net | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 net | det |
| 3 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 catchers | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catchers | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bird | punct |
| 7 | catchers | catcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | the bird catchers | a net | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in net=Destination |
Option 2
In a snare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 snare | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 snare | det |
| 3 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In a trap the farmers laid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 trap | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trap | det |
| 3 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farmers | det |
| 5 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laid | nsubj |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the farmers | a trap | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in trap=Destination |
Option 4
Under a net some hunters made
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 net | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 net | det |
| 3 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 hunters | det |
| 5 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 net | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | some hunters | a net not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset net=Product |
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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