Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

What's the Fairy's big message, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big message · What happens: be, innit

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1878 «Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 message	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Fairy	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 message	amod
7	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 message	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Fairy's big message						tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the Fairy's big message not said here						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

flashy stuff rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flashy	flashy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rules	amod
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rules	compound
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

keep your land and your flock, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 land	nmod:poss
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 keep	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flock	cc
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flock	nmod:poss
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 keep	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 keep	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your land and your flock					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 3

be rich, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 rich	cop
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 innit	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 rich	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						rich property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a cottage is better than flashy stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cottage	det
2	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 stuff	case
6	flashy	flashy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a cottage					than flashy stuff; good property	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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