Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…
Man, was the queen a proper witch or just a bit sly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man · What happens: be · To what, where: queen
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 queen | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Man | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 queen | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | amod |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 queen | appos |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 sly | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 sly | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sly | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 queen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Man | the queen | 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 cruel queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Neither a real witch nor a queen but a cunning stepmother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 witch | cc:preconj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 queen | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 witch | conj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stepmother | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stepmother | det |
| 10 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stepmother | amod |
| 11 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 witch | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A wicked witch who had dealt in curses for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dealt | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dealt | aux |
| 6 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 witch | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 curses | case |
| 8 | curses | curse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dealt | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dealt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | past · perfect | a wicked witch | curses | year | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A proper witch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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