Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

Was the palace mint, like what was it full of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: palace mint · What happens: be · To what, where: palace mint

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mint	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mint	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mint	compound
4	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 full	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 full	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 full	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 full	nsubj
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mint	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 full	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the palace mint					tree rules
2	is	past	the palace mint					full property	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

Diamonds like pebbles everywhere, on every floor and wall of the whole place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 everywhere	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 pebbles	case
3	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Diamonds	nmod
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 everywhere	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everywhere	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wall	cc
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everywhere	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wall	nmod

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

Option 2

Silver like pebbles everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 pebbles	case
3	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Silver	nmod
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 pebbles	advmod

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

Option 3

Rubies and diamonds and gold coins piled up like pebbles in every room, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coins	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 diamonds	cc
3	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rubies	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 coins	cc
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	compound
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 coins	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 piled	compound:prt
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 pebbles	case
10	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 piled	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile up	participle		gold coins not said here		every room		like pebbles	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in room=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Diamonds like pebbles everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 pebbles	case
3	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Diamonds	nmod
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Diamonds	advmod

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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