Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…
Was that demon proper scary, innit? What did it look like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: demon · What happens: innit, look
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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
Sentence 1: Was that demon proper scary, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | was | ADP | _ | 3 demon | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 demon | det |
| 3 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scary | obl |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 scary | advmod |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 scary | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 scary | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | infinitive | 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.
Sentence 2: What did it look like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 look | obl |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 look | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | demon | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
a horrible monster with burning red eyes, horns and a stinking breath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 monster | det |
| 2 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 monster | amod |
| 3 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 eyes | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 monster | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 horns | punct |
| 9 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eyes | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 breath | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 breath | det |
| 12 | stinking | stinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breath | compound |
| 13 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a huge hairy beast with claws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 beast | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beast | amod |
| 3 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beast | amod |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 claws | case |
| 6 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a tall shadowy man in black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 black | case |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
fiery, burning-eyed beast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beast | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 beast | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
| 5 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beast | amod |
| 6 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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