Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…
Innit, who sat on the oven and gave the judgement?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: sit, give · To what, where: oven, judgement
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 oven | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oven | det |
| 7 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 judgement | det |
| 11 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Innit | the oven | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on oven=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Innit not said here | the judgement | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgement=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 · ✓ the right answer
Tubby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tubby | Tubby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the old Lord of Avesnes from the court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lord | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lord | amod |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Avesnes | case |
| 5 | Avesnes | Avesnes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lord | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Lord | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Desire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the chief cook in his white apron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cook | amod |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 apron | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 apron | nmod:poss |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 apron | amod |
| 7 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cook | 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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