Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…

Bro, what was the girl in the coffin like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: girl, coffin

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 coffin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coffin	det
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girl	nmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	9 coffin	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

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

very sad and pale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pale	cc
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sad	conj

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

Option 2

very pale and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 pale	advmod
2	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 quiet	cc
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pale	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

super beautiful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	super	super	ADV	_	2 beautiful	advmod
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretty	pretty	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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