Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…
What's that big lamp made of?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big lamp · What happens: be, make · To what, where: big lamp
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lamp | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lamp | amod |
| 5 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lamp | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 made | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that big lamp | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | that big lamp not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
A hollowed out pearl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pearl | det |
| 2 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pearl | amod |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 hollowed | compound:prt |
| 4 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hollow out | participle | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A hollowed out pearl hung from a golden chain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pearl | det |
| 2 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pearl | amod |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 hollowed | compound:prt |
| 4 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pearl | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 chain | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chain | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chain | amod |
| 9 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hung | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hollow out | participle | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hang | participle | a hollowed pearl not said here | a golden chain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Solid crystal ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ice | amod |
| 2 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ice | amod |
| 3 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A big hollowed out ruby from the king's crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ruby | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ruby | amod |
| 3 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ruby | amod |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 hollowed | compound:prt |
| 5 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 crown | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crown | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ruby | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hollow out | participle | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | crown | the king | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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