Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…
Wasn't the swineherd's daughter paid a bit of gold?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: not be, pay · To what, where: daughter, bit
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | cop |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 daughter | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 swineherd | det |
| 4 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 swineherd | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | nsubj |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 paid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the swineherd's daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | past | the swineherd's daughter | a bit of gold | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Asset |
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
Yeah, a piece of gold, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 piece | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 piece | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, a horn for blowing, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 horn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horn | det |
| 4 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 blowing | mark |
| 6 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 horn | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 horn | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | gerund | a horn not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, a silver cup, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 cup | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cup | det |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cup | compound |
| 5 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cup | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, a fresh knife, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 knife | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knife | amod |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knife | conj |
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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