Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Proper weird, innit: who had the squinny eyes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: innit, have · To what, where: squinny eyes

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weird	amod
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 innit	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 innit	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eyes	det
9	squinny	squinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	have	past		the squinny eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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 baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the pixy father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
2	pixy	pixy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the old mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the baby's grandmother and the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grandmother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 baby	case
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cook	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grandmother	conj

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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