Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess str…
Quick one, what's the swamp bit like? Muddy as anything, yeah, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Quick one · What happens: be · To what, where: swamp bit
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» 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
Sentence 1: Quick one, what's the swamp bit like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 bit | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bit | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 7 | swamp | swamp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bit | amod |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | appos |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 bit | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Quick one | the swamp bit | 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.
Sentence 2: Muddy as anything, yeah, or what?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 anything | case |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Muddy | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Muddy | punct |
| 5 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Muddy | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Muddy | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Muddy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, muddy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 muddy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, bogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bogs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she has to cross swamps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cross | mark |
| 6 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 has | xcomp |
| 7 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cross | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | she not said here | swamps | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swamp=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, they're really muddy ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 ones | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ones | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ones | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 ones | advmod |
| 6 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | muddy ones | tree rules |
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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