Test 7 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da…
Was the Queen's mule rocking gold shoes or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mule · What happens: be, rock · To what, where: mule, gold shoes
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» 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 | 5 mule | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mule | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Queen | case |
| 5 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | rocking | rock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mule | acl |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoes | compound |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rocking | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 shoes | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mule | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Queen's mule | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rock | gerund | the Queen's mule not said here | gold shoes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, plain, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 plain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mate | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plain | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, gold plated, not mint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 plated | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plated | compound |
| 4 | plated | plate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mint | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mint | advmod |
| 7 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plate | participle | mint | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, solid gold, mint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gold | punct |
| 3 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gold | amod |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mint | punct |
| 6 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, solid silver, mint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 silver | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 silver | punct |
| 3 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 silver | amod |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mint | punct |
| 6 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silver | 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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