Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…
Where was they kipping, then, up a tree or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: kip
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 kipping | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kipping | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kipping | nsubj |
| 4 | kipping | kip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 then | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 kipping | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kipping | parataxis |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 tree | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kipping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kip | past · progressive | they | then | 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
in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
in the sty with pigs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 sty | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sty | det |
| 3 | sty | sty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pigs | case |
| 5 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sty | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
up a tree on the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
under the old oak tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 4 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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