Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…
Bare dodgy deal, yeah? When did the miller realise he was in trouble?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: miller · What happens: realise, be · To what, where: trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Bare dodgy deal, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deal | amod |
| 2 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deal | amod |
| 3 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deal | punct |
| 5 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 deal | discourse |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 deal | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: When did the miller realise he was in trouble?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 realise | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 realise | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 realise | nsubj |
| 5 | realise | realise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trouble | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trouble | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 realise | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 realise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past · do-support | the miller | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | miller | trouble | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
when the wife had the baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the wife | the baby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
Option 2
at the wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 wedding | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
when the nixy first appeared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 appeared | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nixy | det |
| 3 | nixy | nixy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the nixy | first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 2 dawn | case |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | 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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