Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…
What's the big sword called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big sword · What happens: be, call · To what, where: big sword · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sword | amod |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sword | acl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the big sword | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | the big sword not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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
The good brand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brand | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brand | amod |
| 3 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The sword of the old king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The brand that never struck in vain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brand | det |
| 2 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 struck | obj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 struck | advmod |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brand | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike | past | the brand | vain | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
Option 4
The blade of his father's hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blade | det |
| 2 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hall | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 father | case |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blade | nmod |
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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