Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor her…
wait is the wedding guy a giant or a fairy
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wait wedding guy
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1695 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor herd-boy helps a wounded giant, gets a magic loaf and an invisible belt, and wins his master's daughter» 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 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guy | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guy | det |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guy | compound |
| 5 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 guy | amod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fairy | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fairy | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wait wedding guy or a fairy | 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
a fairy lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 2 fairy | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a giant, the whole crew are giants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crew | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crew | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 giant | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crew | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crew | amod |
| 6 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giants | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 giants | cop |
| 8 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a giant whole crew | giants | tree rules |
Option 3
a dwarf, the whole crew are dwarves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dwarf | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crew | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dwarf | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crew | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crew | amod |
| 6 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwarves | compound |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dwarves | cop |
| 8 | dwarves | dwarve | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | crew dwarves | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a fairy, the whole crew are fairies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fairies | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crew | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crew | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crew | amod |
| 6 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fairy | appos |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairies | cop |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fairy | fairies | tree rules |
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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