Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

Like, what did the devil have, claws and wings and what else?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: devil · What happens: do, have · To what, where: claws

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 devil	det
6	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 claws	punct
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wings	cc
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 claws	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 claws	acl:relcl
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	have	present	the devil	claws and wings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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

Teeth like long iron nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 nails	case
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nails	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nails	compound
5	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Teeth	nmod

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

Option 2

Hooves like iron plates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 plates	case
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plates	compound
4	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hooves	nmod

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

Option 3

Teeth like nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 nails	case
3	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Teeth	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Teeth like sixpenny nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 nails	case
3	sixpenny	sixpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nails	compound
4	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Teeth	nmod

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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