Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

Was the Duchess's horse a proper beast, or a donkey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: horse

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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 horse	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 horse	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Duchess	case
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beast	csubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 donkey	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 donkey	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 donkey	det
12	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beast	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 beast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Duchess's horse					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 · ✓ the right answer

an old cart horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
3	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	compound
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a pony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pony	det
2	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a sad old plough horse from the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
4	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	compound
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 farm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farm	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	nmod

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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