Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Wait, where did the pixy nick the fruit and eggs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: pixy nick

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nick	det
6	pixy	pixy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nick	amod
7	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fruit	det
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eggs	cc
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fruit	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	the pixy nick				the fruit and eggs obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality

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 cellar of the lady's house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 cellar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cellar	det
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lady	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cellar	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 market	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 market	det
3	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

from the hen-house behind the cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hen	punct
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod

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

Option 4

at the stall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 stall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stall	det
3	stall	stall	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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