Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…
Hella, what did the old lady wear?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hella · What happens: do · To what, where: old lady wear
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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 | Hella | Hella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wear | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wear | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wear | compound |
| 8 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Hella | the old lady wear | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Eventuality |
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
a ragged gown with a torn jerkin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gown | det |
| 2 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gown | amod |
| 3 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 jerkin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jerkin | det |
| 6 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 jerkin | amod |
| 7 | jerkin | jerkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gown | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
a ragged cape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cape | det |
| 2 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cape | amod |
| 3 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a ragged gown and an old wig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gown | det |
| 2 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gown | amod |
| 3 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wig | cc |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wig | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wig | amod |
| 7 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a ragged gown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gown | det |
| 2 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gown | amod |
| 3 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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