Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…
Mad that the Fairy built a massive palace, yeah? What did she bring into it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: build, bring · To what, where: massive palace, palace
This is test 12 · ★ 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: Mad that the Fairy built a massive palace, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 built | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mad | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Mad | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Fairy | a massive palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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: What did she bring into it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 bring | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | Fairy | palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme into it=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
her gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gold | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
her servants and horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 servants | nmod:poss |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 horses | cc |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 servants | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
her books, her spells and all the fairy secrets she had gathered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 books | nmod:poss |
| 2 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spells | punct |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spells | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 books | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 secrets | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 secrets | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 secrets | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 secrets | compound |
| 10 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 books | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gathered | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gathered | aux |
| 13 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 secrets | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · perfect | she | all fairy secrets not said here | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spell | her = she | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
her books and fairy secrets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 books | nmod:poss |
| 2 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 secrets | cc |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secrets | compound |
| 5 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 books | 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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