Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

innit the Earl wanted his daughter to marry some lord, who was it again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Earl, daughter · What happens: innit, want, marry, be · To what, where: daughter, lord, it

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earl	det
3	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 innit	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 marry	mark
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 lord	det
10	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marry	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 who	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	10 lord	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 who	nsubj
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 who	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	want	past	the Earl	Earl's daughter	tree rules
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Earl's daughter not said here	some lord	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Patient
4	is a	past		it	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 prince from the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 north	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 north	det
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prince	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a noble of high degree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 noble	det
2	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 degree	case
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 degree	amod
5	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noble	nmod

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

Option 3

a noble of very high degree and wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 noble	det
2	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 degree	case
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 degree	amod
6	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noble	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wealth	cc
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 degree	conj

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

Option 4

a duke of the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 duke	det
2	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 south	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 south	det
5	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 duke	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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