Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…
Honestly, was the girl a total genius for cracking the name?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: total genius · What happens: be, crack · To what, where: girl, name
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» 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 | Honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 5 girl | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Honestly | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 girl | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 genius | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 genius | det |
| 7 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 genius | amod |
| 8 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 cracking | mark |
| 10 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 genius | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cracking | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 genius | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the girl | honestly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crack | gerund | a total genius not said here | the name | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme |
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, she was clever, but dull, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 clever | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dull | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 dull | cc |
| 8 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clever | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bruv | punct |
| 10 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clever | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, she was just lucky, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 lucky | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lucky | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lucky | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 lucky | advmod |
| 6 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lucky | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | mate vocative; lucky property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she was top of the class, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 top | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 top | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 top | cop |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 class | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 class | det |
| 8 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 cap | det |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | top and no cap | of the class | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, genius
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 genius | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 genius | punct |
| 3 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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