Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Proper creepy, what sort of head did that serpent have?

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 creepy	amod
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 have	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 sort	det
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 head	case
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 serpent	det
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	what sort of head						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sort			head					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

Scales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A bird's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A woman's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woman	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A woman's head on a long serpent's neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woman	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	10 neck	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 serpent	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 serpent	amod
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neck	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 serpent	case
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod

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

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