Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

Proper random, but what did the old witch whack the mare with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old witch · What happens: whack · To what, where: mare

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 random	amod
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whack	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 whack	cc
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 whack	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whack	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 witch	amod
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whack	nsubj
10	whack	whack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 random	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mare	det
12	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whack	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	10 whack	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past · do-support	the old witch	the mare					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient mare=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 long wooden broom handle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 handle	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 handle	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 handle	amod
4	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handle	compound
5	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a broom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 broom	det
2	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a heavy iron pot lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lid	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lid	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pot	compound
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lid	compound
5	lid	lid	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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