Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

Who sorted the stable out, was it the daughter, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: stable · What happens: sort out, be · To what, where: stable, daughter

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sorted	nsubj
2	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stable	det
4	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 sorted	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughter	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 daughter	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sorted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past		the stable					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Theme
2	is a	past	stable	the daughter					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

the king's old maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the giant's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the giant's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	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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