Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

Was the old woman a proper vagrant or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old woman

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vagrant	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vagrant	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vagrant	amod
7	vagrant	vagrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 vagrant	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 vagrant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old 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

a bit, yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bit	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 bit	discourse

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she had no home at all and wandered the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 home	det
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wandered	cc
8	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wandered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no home		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
2	wander	past	she not said here	the woods					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she had no home, sort of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 home	det
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 sort	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no home and sort					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient

Option 4

no, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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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