Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…
Dead creepy, the harp made itself out of her bones, didn't it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: harp · What happens: make, not do · To what, where: harp, bones
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 creepy | amod |
| 2 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 harp | det |
| 5 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bones | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bones | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 did | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the harp | harp | her bones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material itself=Product | |||
| 2 | not do | past | harp | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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
Yeah, her skull and her teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 skull | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 skull | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 skull | nmod:poss |
| 4 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 teeth | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skull | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, from a sycamore tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 tree | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | sycamore | sycamore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, her breast-bone and her hair, plus her fingers too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bone | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bone | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bone | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 breast | punct |
| 6 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hair | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bone | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fingers | punct |
| 11 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 13 fingers | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bone | parataxis |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 fingers | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, her breast-bone and her hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bone | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bone | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bone | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 breast | punct |
| 6 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hair | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bone | 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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