Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…
Dead spooky the nixy was, right? Where did she come up from?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, nixy · What happens: spooky, be, come up
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Dead spooky the nixy was, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADV | _ | 2 spooky | advmod |
| 2 | spooky | spooky | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nixy | det |
| 4 | nixy | nixy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spooky | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spooky | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 2 spooky | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 spooky | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spooky | imperative | you not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the nixy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Where did she come up from?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 up | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past · do-support | nixy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
the waves of the mill-pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 waves | det |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 5 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pond | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 mill | punct |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waves | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | the mill pond | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the pond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pond | det |
| 2 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the bottom of the dark well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bottom | det |
| 2 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dark | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dark | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bottom | nmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 bottom | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the cold depths of the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 depths | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 depths | amod |
| 3 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 depths | 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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