Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

Was it cold in the rock tunnel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: rock tunnel

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 tunnel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tunnel	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tunnel	compound
7	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cold	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			the rock tunnel		cold 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

Aye, freezing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 freezing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Aye, it's bitter cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cold	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cold	amod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Naw, it's dead warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warm	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 warm	amod
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Naw	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	Naw not said here				warm property	tree rules

Option 4

Naw, it's warm enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 warm	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warm	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	cop
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 warm	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Naw					enough, warm property	tree rules

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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