Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…
Minging day for the miller, innit. What did the servant bring the miller at the door?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, servant · What happens: ming, innit, bring · To what, where: miller, door
This is test 11 · ★ 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: Minging day for the miller, innit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minging | ming | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 innit | advcl |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Minging | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 miller | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 miller | det |
| 5 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Minging | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Minging | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ming | gerund | you not said here | day | for the miller | tree rules | |||
| 2 | innit | imperative | you not said here | 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.
Sentence 2: What did the servant bring the miller at the door?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 bring | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servant | det |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 miller | det |
| 7 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | the servant | the miller | the door | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme miller=Destination |
The options
Option 1
word of a funeral
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 funeral | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 funeral | det |
| 4 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 word | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | word | a funeral | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
news of a baby boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | compound |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 news | nmod |
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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