Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…
who was driving that posh carriage, then?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: drive
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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 | 3 driving | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 driving | aux |
| 3 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 carriage | mark |
| 5 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carriage | amod |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driving | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 then | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 driving | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 driving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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
a coachman, quite good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coachman | det |
| 2 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 coachman | acl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a big spaniel, dead skilled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spaniel | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spaniel | amod |
| 3 | spaniel | spaniel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 skilled | punct |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skilled | amod |
| 6 | skilled | skilled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spaniel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a monkey, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 monkey | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a little fairy, very skilled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fairy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairy | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 skilled | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 skilled | advmod |
| 6 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairy | amod |
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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