Test 4 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

Like, what sort of cow turned up, a manky one or a beauty?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sort · What happens: turn up, sort · To what, where: cow

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cow	case
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 turned	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	manky	manky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 beauty	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 beauty	det
15	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	participle	what sort of cow						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sort			cow					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A small grey one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 one	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A beauty, white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beauty	det
2	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 beauty	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

A manky one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	manky	manky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	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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