Test 13 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…
Wicked, what's the old word for a servant girl who watched her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servant girl · What happens: be, watch · To what, where: Wicked old word, girl
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 word | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 girl | compound |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 watched | nsubj |
| 13 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watched | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Wicked old word | for a servant girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | a servant girl | girl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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
stepdaughter's watchful attendant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attendant | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 stepdaughter | case |
| 3 | watchful | watchful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attendant | amod |
| 4 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
chambermaid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chambermaid | chambermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
governess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | governess | governess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
handmaiden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | handmaiden | handmaiden | NOUN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1547-pg540-part44/t13/