Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…
Who had no kids for ages before the baby came, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby · What happens: have, come, innit · To what, where: kids
This is test 4 · ★ 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 kids | det |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ages | case |
| 6 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | no kids | for ages | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the baby | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | the baby not said here | 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 · ✓ the right answer
the king and the queen
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 | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 queen | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the baker and his missus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baker | det |
| 2 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 missus | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 missus | nmod:poss |
| 5 | missus | missus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 baker | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the king and queen, who were rich, innit
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 | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 queen | cc |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rich | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rich | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rich | cop |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 king | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king and queen and innit | rich property | tree rules |
Option 4
the farmer and his wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farmer | conj |
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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