Test 7 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…
Honest, whose clothes did the youth nick for the disguise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Honest clothes · What happens: do · To what, where: youth nick
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clothes | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Honest | punct |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nick | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nick | compound |
| 8 | nick | nick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 disguise | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 disguise | det |
| 11 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Honest clothes | the youth nick | for the disguise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality |
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
A poor beggar's rags from the bridge by the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beggar | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beggar | amod |
| 3 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rags | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 beggar | case |
| 5 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bridge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rags | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridge | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A beggar's, sorted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 beggar | det |
| 2 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 beggar | case |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorted | punct |
| 5 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 beggar | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | participle | a beggar not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A farmer's, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 farmer | case |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A smith's, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 smith | det |
| 2 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 innit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 smith | case |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 innit | punct |
| 5 | innit | innit | 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.
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