Test 13 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…
Mad! What did the first head say the girl would be?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: first head, girl · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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
Sentence 1: Mad!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What did the first head say the girl would be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 head | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 be | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the first head | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | would | the girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
the loveliest queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the prettiest girl ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 girl | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the prettiest girl ever seen in the land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 girl | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | participle | the prettiest girl not said here | the land | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
the prettiest girl in the whole world
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 world | amod |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | 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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