Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

Was the old Fairy proper ancient, or just a bit old?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old Fairy

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fairy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fairy	amod
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fairy	amod
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 old	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 old	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proper	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Fairy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old Fairy					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She had one eye and one tooth, and was older than the mountain itself

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eye	nummod
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tooth	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tooth	nummod
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 older	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 older	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 older	cop
11	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 mountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountain	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 older	obl
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 mountain	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	one eye and one tooth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	is	past	She not said here					than the mountain mountain; old property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She had one eye and one tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eye	nummod
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tooth	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tooth	nummod
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	one eye and one tooth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

Option 3

She had one eye and one tooth, and lived alone in a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eye	nummod
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tooth	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tooth	nummod
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lived	cc
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 lived	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cave	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cave	det
14	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	one eye and one tooth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	live	past	She not said here			a cave		alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 4

She had two eyes and two teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eyes	nummod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 teeth	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 teeth	nummod
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eyes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	two eyes and two teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1706-pg640-part30/t5/