Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…
What stuff did the millers pick up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stuff, millers · What happens: do, pick up
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 stuff | det |
| 2 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 millers | det |
| 5 | millers | miller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pick | nsubj |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pick | compound:prt |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what stuff | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pick up | infinitive | the millers | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a millstone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 millstone | det |
| 2 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a big boulder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boulder | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boulder | amod |
| 3 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a grindstone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 grindstone | det |
| 2 | grindstone | grindstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a heavy millstone from the mill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 millstone | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 millstone | amod |
| 3 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 mill | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mill | det |
| 6 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 millstone | nmod |
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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