Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Ain't it dead sad she went blind?

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sad	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	amod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	ccomp
8	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

blind on one side until the day she died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 side	nummod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blind	obl
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blind	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 day	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	she	the day not said here					tree rules

Option 2

blind for a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 year	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blind	obl

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

Option 3

blind for many a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 many	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 blind	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blind	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

blind till she died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	till	till	SCONJ	_	4 died	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 blind	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	she						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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