Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…
Proper, what was the castle standing on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle · What happens: be, stand on · To what, where: castle
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 castle | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Proper | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 castle | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 castle | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 castle | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 standing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 castle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the castle | properly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand on | gerund | the castle not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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
seven silver pillars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pillars | nummod |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillars | amod |
| 3 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a great golden floor on twelve pillars and a moat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 floor | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 floor | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 floor | amod |
| 4 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 pillars | case |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pillars | nummod |
| 7 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 floor | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 moat | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moat | det |
| 10 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pillars | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
twelve golden pillars rising out of the sea below
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pillars | nummod |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillars | amod |
| 3 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 pillars | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | obl |
| 9 | below | below | ADV | _ | 8 sea | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | twelve golden pillars not said here | the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
twelve golden pillars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pillars | nummod |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillars | amod |
| 3 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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