Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Was the lady in bed actually posh then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	7 posh	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 posh	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lady	nmod
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 posh	advmod
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 posh	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 posh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lady in bed				then	actually, posh property	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

she was a fine lady dressed in silk and lace from the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lady	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lady	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 silk	case
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lace	cc
10	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 silk	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a fine lady					tree rules
2	dress	participle		a fine lady not said here		silk and lace		from the city	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she was a kind old nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nurse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nurse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nurse	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nurse	amod
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a kind old nurse					tree rules

Option 3

she was the richest lady in the whole county

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lady	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 county	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 county	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 county	amod
9	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the richest lady		the whole county			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she was a beautiful lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lady	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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