Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and…
Was the hind mega quick or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2009 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-maiden dies» 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 | 5 quick | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 quick | det |
| 3 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quick | amod |
| 4 | mega | megapixel | ADV | _ | 5 quick | advmod |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 what | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 quick | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | megapixel, quick 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
Fast as the wind, she was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wind | case |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Fast | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wind | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wind | acl:relcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Quick as a flash, aye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 flash | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flash | det |
| 4 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Quick | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
| 6 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 1 Quick | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Really fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 2 fast | advmod |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Quick as anything, she was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 anything | case |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Quick | fixed |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 anything | acl:relcl |
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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