Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…
Wicked, so the drowning girl offered half her stuff for a hand, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drowning girl · What happens: drown, offer · To what, where: stuff
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 offered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 offered | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 offered | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | drowning | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offered | nsubj |
| 7 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 stuff | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stuff | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offered | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 offered | punct |
| 15 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 offered | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | gerund | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | offer | past | the drowning girl | girl's stuff | for a hand goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme for hand=Goal |
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
Nah, just a ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 ring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ring | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, her gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gold | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gold | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she offered a glove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 offered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 glove | det |
| 6 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | she | a glove | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent glove=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, half of all her land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 half | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 land | det:predet |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 land | nmod:poss |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 half | 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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