Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Fairy's Daughter: the bird-…
So the vulture was really a girl, right, or am I getting it wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vulture, I · What happens: be, get · To what, where: girl, vulture
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1711 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Fairy's Daughter: the bird-girl is freed and the wicked Fairy drowns» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 girl | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vulture | det |
| 3 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 girl | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 14 getting | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 getting | cc |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 getting | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 getting | nsubj |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 girl | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 getting | obj |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 getting | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the vulture | a girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present · progressive | I | vulture | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, the vulture was the girl, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vulture | det |
| 4 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the vulture | the girl and innit | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, the vulture was just a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 bird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vulture | det |
| 4 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bird | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bird | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 bird | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the vulture | a bird | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, the vulture was the girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vulture | det |
| 4 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the vulture | the girl | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, the egg was the girl, the vulture was the monster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 egg | det |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vulture | det |
| 10 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 monster | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 monster | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monster | det |
| 13 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the egg | the girl and the monster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the vulture | the monster | tree rules |
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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