Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Turkey-maiden, part 36: the Fairy s…
Fam, what did the turkey-girl say the crown weighed?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: turkey girl · What happens: say, weigh · To what, where: Fam, crown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1539 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Turkey-maiden, part 36: the Fairy saves the Queen and finds Delicia as a turkey-maiden» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 6 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 turkey | punct |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fam | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obj |
| 12 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 crown | acl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the turkey girl | Fam | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme crown=Manner | ||||
| 2 | weigh | participle | the crown not said here | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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
Nothing, it's about the gold and size
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 gold | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gold | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gold | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 size | cc |
| 9 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | about the gold and size | tree rules |
Option 2
A pound, it's about the cost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pound | det |
| 2 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pound | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cost | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cost | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 cost | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cost | det |
| 8 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a pound | about the cost | tree rules |
Option 3
A lot, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lot | det |
| 2 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lot | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nothing, it's about the price and weight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 price | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 price | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 price | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 price | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 price | det |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 weight | cc |
| 9 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 price | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | about the price and weight | 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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