Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…
Wait, what did the pig buy at the fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pig · What happens: wait, buy · To what, where: fair
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 buy | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buy | nsubj |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 fair | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fair | det |
| 10 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buy | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy | past · do-support | the pig | the fair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme at fair=Asset |
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 wooden bucket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bucket | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bucket | amod |
| 3 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a big new butter-churn and some pigs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 churn | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 churn | amod |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 churn | amod |
| 4 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 churn | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 butter | punct |
| 6 | churn | churn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pigs | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 pigs | det |
| 9 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 churn | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a brass lamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lamp | det |
| 2 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lamp | compound |
| 3 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a butter-churn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 churn | det |
| 2 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 churn | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 butter | punct |
| 4 | churn | churn | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1952-pg7439-part11/t4/