Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

so the Mayoress was a long thin stick of a woman, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mayoress · What happens: be · To what, where: long thin stick

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	_	8 stick	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mayoress	det
3	Mayoress	Mayoress	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 woman	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 stick	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Mayoress	a long thin stick				of a woman	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

yeah, short and wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 short	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 short	punct
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wide	cc
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 short	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, skinny as a pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 skinny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 pole	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pole	det
6	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skinny	nmod

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

Option 3

yep, round as a barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 round	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	round	round	ADV	_	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 barrel	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 barrel	det
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 round	obl

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

Option 4

yeah, tall and bony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 tall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tall	punct
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bony	cc
5	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tall	conj

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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