Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…
Was Burd Ellen all fancy with her gear?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Burd
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Burd | cop |
| 2 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Burd | flat |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fancy | det |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Burd | appos |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gear | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fancy | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Burd | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Burd | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, velvet, silk and gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 velvet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 velvet | punct |
| 3 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 silk | punct |
| 5 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 velvet | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gold | cc |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 velvet | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, she turned up in rags and a plain grey cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 turned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 turned | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rags | case |
| 7 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cloak | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cloak | det |
| 10 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cloak | amod |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cloak | amod |
| 12 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rags | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn up | past | she | rags and a plain grey cloak | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rag=Location |
Option 3
Nah, just rags and cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 rags | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 rags | advmod |
| 4 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cloth | cc |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rags | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, silver and furs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 silver | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 silver | punct |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 furs | cc |
| 5 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 silver | conj |
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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