Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov…
Mate, did the witch turn Parsley into a toad or a frog?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: turn · To what, where: Parsley
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turn | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | nsubj |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 toad | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 toad | det |
| 10 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 frog | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 toad | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · do-support | the witch | Parsley | into a toad or a frog result; Mate vocative | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent parsley=Theme into toad=Result |
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
Frog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Newt, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newt | newt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Newt | punct |
| 3 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 Newt | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Toad, obvs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 obvs | punct |
| 3 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Toad | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Frog, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 innit | punct |
| 3 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Frog | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1912-pg7277-part49/t1/