Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Yeah but what kind of horse was it, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: horse

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kind	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 kind	cc
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 horse	case
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		horse					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

a tall black stallion with a silver bridle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stallion	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stallion	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stallion	amod
4	stallion	stallion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 bridle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bridle	det
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bridle	amod
8	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stallion	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a bay horse, tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	bay	bay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tall	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 horse	punct
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

an enormous coal-black horse with a flowing mane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 coal	punct
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 mane	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mane	det
9	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 mane	amod
10	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horse	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a coal-black horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
2	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 black	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 coal	punct
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	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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