Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…
Yo, what's the golden ball story about, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: golden ball story
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» 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 | _ | 8 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 story | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 like | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 about | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 story | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the golden ball story | 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 lad and his lass chasing a magic ball down a hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lass | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lass | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lad | conj |
| 6 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 lad | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ball | compound |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chasing | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chasing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | gerund | a lad and his lass not said here | a magic ball | a hill | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Theme down hill=Trajectory |
Option 2
two girls and a red hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 girls | nummod |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hat | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hat | det |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hat | amod |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girls | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
two girls who lose a golden ball in a well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 girls | nummod |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ball | amod |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | two girls | a golden ball | a well | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
two lasses and a ball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 lasses | nummod |
| 2 | lasses | lass | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ball | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lasses | 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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