Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…
Who was the lad's gaffer, anyway?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: gaffer
This is test 7 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gaffer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gaffer | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lad | det |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gaffer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 lad | case |
| 6 | gaffer | gaffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 anyway | punct |
| 8 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 gaffer | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 gaffer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the lad's gaffer | anyway property | 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
the old alchemist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 alchemist | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 alchemist | amod |
| 3 | alchemist | alchemist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the great master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 master | amod |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a travelling magician
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 2 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 magician | amod |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1953-pg7439-part12/t7/