Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

Howay, what kind of spell turned Margaret into a worm, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Howay · What happens: turn · To what, where: Margaret

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Howay	Howay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 spell	case
6	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 worm	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 worm	det
11	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	7 turned	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Howay	Margaret				into a worm result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent margaret=Theme into worm=Result

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 dark charm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 charm	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 charm	amod
3	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A kiss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kiss	det
2	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A nasty spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
2	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spell	amod
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 curse	det
2	curse	curse	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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