Test 7 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…
Wha's Neddy, is he a horse or like a donkey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Neddy · What happens: be · To what, where: horse
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Wha | Wha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Neddy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Wha | case |
| 3 | Neddy | Neddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Neddy | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 horse | cop |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nsubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 donkey | cc |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 donkey | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 donkey | det |
| 12 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 horse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Wha's Neddy | a horse or a donkey | 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
A pony, a cob
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pony | det |
| 2 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cob | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cob | det |
| 5 | cob | cob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pony | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An ass, a donkey, a grey beast of burden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ass | det |
| 2 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 donkey | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 donkey | det |
| 5 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ass | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beast | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beast | det |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beast | amod |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ass | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 burden | case |
| 11 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A goat, a sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sheep | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sheep | det |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An ass, a donkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ass | det |
| 2 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 donkey | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 donkey | det |
| 5 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ass | conj |
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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