Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel rev…
Was the wedding a small thing or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wedding
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1950 «English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel reveals the girl in rushes, and her father learns how much she loved him» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wedding | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 thing | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wedding | 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
a humble and quiet little affair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 affair | det |
| 2 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 affair | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 quiet | cc |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 humble | conj |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 affair | amod |
| 6 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
quite simple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 simple | advmod |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
very grand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | very | very | ADV | _ | 2 grand | advmod |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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