Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…
Innit, the nixy came out the pond, right? What did she want for the riches?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: come out, want · To what, where: pond
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Innit, the nixy came out the pond, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nixy | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nixy | det |
| 4 | nixy | nixy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Innit | appos |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pond | det |
| 8 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Innit | the pond | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pond=Result |
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 want for the riches?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 want | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 riches | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 riches | det |
| 7 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 want | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · do-support | Innit | for the riches | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
the newest chicken in the yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chicken | det |
| 2 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 chicken | amod |
| 3 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 yard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 yard | det |
| 6 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chicken | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the eldest child in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the youngest thing in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his youngest son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | 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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