Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…
Mate, what was the witch's pet bird?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: pet bird
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bird | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 bird | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bird | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bird | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 witch | case |
| 8 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bird | compound |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and the witch's pet bird | the witch's pet bird | 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 right answer
a dove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dove | det |
| 2 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a golden-feathered parrot from the south
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parrot | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parrot | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 golden | punct |
| 4 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parrot | amod |
| 5 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 south | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 south | det |
| 8 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 parrot | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a magpie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 magpie | det |
| 2 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a raven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 raven | det |
| 2 | raven | raven | 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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