Test 2 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…
Mate, what did the mare turn herself into for the foxes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mare · What happens: turn · To what, where: Mate
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 turn | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mare | det |
| 6 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 turn | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 foxes | case |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 foxes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foxes | det |
| 12 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 turn | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · do-support | the mare | Mate | into the foxes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent what=Theme herself=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a grey owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 owl | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 owl | amod |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a hen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a big fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1761-pg641-part12/t2/