Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Was the next day market-day or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: day market day · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	compound
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 market	punct
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the day market day						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 · ✓ the right answer

next day was market-day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 market	punct
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	next day	market day					tree rules

Option 2

no, it was not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yes, it was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4

the next day was Sunday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Sunday	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Sunday	cop
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the next day	Sunday					tree rules

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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