Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

Where did the lad land his ship, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: be, lan · To what, where: ship

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 land	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	nsubj
5	land	lan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ship	nmod:poss
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 land	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	5 land	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 land	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	lan	past	the lad	lad's ship					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

In the sheltered creek beneath Bamburgh Castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 creek	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creek	det
3	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 creek	amod
4	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 Castle	case
6	Bamburgh	Bamburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Castle	compound
7	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 creek	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shelter	participle							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beach	det
2	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Budle Creek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Budle	Budle	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Creek	Creek	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Budle	flat

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

Option 4

Bamburgh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bamburgh	Bamburgh	PROPN	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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