Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell we…

So what's a bower, like, is it a fish or summat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish, bower · What happens: be · To what, where: bower, fish

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1883 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell well, Celandine comes to the valley, Featherhead ignores her» 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	_	5 bower	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 bower	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bower	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bower	det
5	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bower	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	5 bower	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bower	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fish	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fish	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 summat	cc
14	summat	summat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fish or summat	a bower					tree rules
2	is a	present	a bower	a fish or summat					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

a big fish from the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a shady shelter of leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shelter	det
2	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shelter	amod
3	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shelter	nmod

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

Option 3

a sort of bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bird	case
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			bird					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

a kind of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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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