Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…
Wicked, the Fairy made the Wizard King's black liquid spill. Who got hit by it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked Fairy · What happens: make, hit · To what, where: black liquid spill
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» 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: Wicked, the Fairy made the Wizard King's black liquid spill.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fairy | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | compound |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spill | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spill | amod |
| 11 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spill | amod |
| 12 | spill | spill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Wicked Fairy | the Wizard King's black liquid spill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spill=Product |
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.
Sentence 2: Who got hit by it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | aux:pass |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hit | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past · passive | by Fairy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by it=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
the Magician himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 Magician | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Prince's loyal guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 guard | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Prince | case |
| 4 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 guard | amod |
| 5 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the bride's old nurse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bride | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nurse | amod |
| 5 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the Fairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | 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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