Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…
yo what was the queen's job, like was she a farmer or a witch-queen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: be · To what, where: job
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 job | discourse |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 job | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 job | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 queen | case |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 she | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 she | case |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 she | cop |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 job | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 farmer | det |
| 13 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 she | nsubj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 queen | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 queen | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 witch | punct |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 farmer | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 job | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the queen's job | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | a farmer or a witch queen | like she | 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 · ✓ the right answer
a queen with magic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 magic | case |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a queen who could work magic and spells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spells | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 work | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | aux |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 queen | acl:relcl |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 work | cc |
| 8 | spells | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | could | a queen | magic property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spell | present | a queen | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
a queen of spells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 spells | case |
| 4 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 queen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a queen who knew all the old magic arts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 arts | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arts | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 arts | amod |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arts | compound |
| 9 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knew | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | a queen | all old magic arts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus |
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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