Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…
Whit's the fairy baby playin wi, eh?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: be · To what, where: fairy playin wi
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wi | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wi | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wi | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wi | amod |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playin | compound |
| 6 | playin | playin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wi | compound |
| 7 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eh | punct |
| 9 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 7 wi | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wi | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Whit | the fairy playin wi | 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 ball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A wand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wand | det |
| 2 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A shiny wand wi' stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wi | det |
| 2 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wi | amod |
| 3 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wi | compound |
| 4 | wi | wi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stars | compound |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wi | punct |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A wee gold wand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wand | det |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wand | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wand | compound |
| 4 | wand | wand | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1972-pg7439-part31/t8/