Test 7 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

Who was the old one who nicked him, and what was she, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old one · What happens: be, nick · To what, where: old one, him, she

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 nicked	nsubj
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nicked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 she	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 she	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 she	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 she	cop
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
15	like	like	INTJ	_	13 she	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the old one	tree rules
2	nick	past	the old one	him = he	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is a	past	the old one	she	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

some kind of old fairy woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 woman	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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

Option 2

a nun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a hag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	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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