Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…
yo what was the curse for her voice, dead squeaky?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: curse
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1976 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude girl is cursed by the heads and wed to a cobbler» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 5 curse | discourse |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 curse | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 curse | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curse | det |
| 5 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curse | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 squeaky | punct |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 squeaky | amod |
| 11 | squeaky | squeaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 curse | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 curse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the curse | for her voice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | 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
like a crow, all croaky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 crow | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 croaky | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crow | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 croaky | advmod |
| 6 | croaky | croaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
like a corn-crake, harsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 crake | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crake | det |
| 3 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crake | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 corn | punct |
| 5 | crake | crake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 harsh | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crake | punct |
| 7 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a hoarse bird voice, dead rough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 2 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | compound |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 voice | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rough | amod |
| 7 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 voice | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
like a corn-crake, dead harsh and screechy like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 crake | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crake | det |
| 3 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crake | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 corn | punct |
| 5 | crake | crake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harsh | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crake | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harsh | amod |
| 8 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 screechy | cc |
| 10 | screechy | screechy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harsh | conj |
| 11 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 harsh | discourse |
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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