Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the puddi…
oi, what was the king's little knight's horse?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1964 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider» 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 | oi | oi | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 horse | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 horse | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 horse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knight | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 knight | case |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 horse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | 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
a big white horse, a proper fancy one from the stables, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 8 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horse | appos |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 stables | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stables | det |
| 12 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mad | punct |
| 14 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a pony, a brown one, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pony | det |
| 2 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pony | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mad | punct |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a mouse, a dapper little one with a saddle, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mad | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 5 | dapper | dapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | compound |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mouse | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 saddle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 saddle | det |
| 10 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mouse | punct |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a mouse, a dapper one, mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mad | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | dapper | dapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | compound |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mouse | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mouse | punct |
| 8 | mad | mad | 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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