Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…
the ploughman's wife, was she dead nice or proper mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be, mean
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ploughman | det |
| 2 | ploughman | ploughman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 ploughman | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nice | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nice | cop |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nice | nsubj |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nice | amod |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 proper | cc |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nice | conj |
| 12 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nice | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 nice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ploughman's wife | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the ploughman's wife not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | infinitive | the ploughman's wife not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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
very greedy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | very | very | ADV | _ | 2 greedy | advmod |
| 2 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
good-hearted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hearted | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 good | punct |
| 3 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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