Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a pat…

Was the castle proper scary, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» 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	5 scary	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scary	nsubj
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 scary	advmod
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 though	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 scary	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the castle					properly, scary property	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

Nah, made of gold, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle						of gold and mate	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

Nah, bright pink and sparkly, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 pink	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pink	amod
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sparkly	cc
6	sparkly	sparkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pink	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pink	vocative

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, black as anything, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 black	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 anything	case
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 black	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	conj

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

Option 4

Nah, made of cake, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cake	case
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle						of cake and mate	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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