Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…
Bro, who untangled the skein?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: untangle · To what, where: skein
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 untangled | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 untangled | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 untangled | nsubj |
| 4 | untangled | untangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skein | det |
| 6 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 untangled | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 untangled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untangle | past | the skein | Bro vocative | 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 old Fairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The old Fairy with her enormous skein
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 skein | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 skein | nmod:poss |
| 6 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 skein | amod |
| 7 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fairy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Percinet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | 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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