Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…

Who's the cleverest one in the bunch, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: cleverest one, bunch

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» 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	5 one	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bunch	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bunch	det
8	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 one	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the cleverest one		the bunch			tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

that Elfin King with the carbuncle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 King	mark
2	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	compound
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 carbuncle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 carbuncle	det
6	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 King	nmod

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

Option 2

the youngest of the three lassies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 lassies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lassies	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lassies	nummod
6	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 youngest	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Molly Whuppie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Whuppie	Whuppie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Molly	flat

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

Option 4

Childe Rowland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Childe	flat

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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