Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…
Lol, what were Browny and Whitey tied to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Browny · What happens: be, tie · To what, where: Browny
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 8 tied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 Browny | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Browny | cop |
| 5 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tied | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Whitey | cc |
| 7 | Whitey | Whitey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Browny | conj |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tied | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 tied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Browny and Whitey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tie | past | Browny and Whitey | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 wooden fence rail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rail | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rail | amod |
| 3 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rail | compound |
| 4 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A fallen log nearby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 log | det |
| 2 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 log | amod |
| 3 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 3 log | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A stake in the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stake | det |
| 2 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stake | 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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