Test 10 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…
Where did the eldest daughter go to get help?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest daughter · What happens: go, get · To what, where: help
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» 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 | 6 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 daughter | amod |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | the eldest daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the eldest daughter not said here | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
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
to a farmer's wife up the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 farmer | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
to the old miller in the glen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 miller | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 miller | amod |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 glen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glen | det |
| 7 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miller | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
to the king's castle far away and begged the guards for a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obl |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 begged | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begged | cc |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guards | det |
| 11 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 begged | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the guards | to the king's castle; for a horse; away property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient for horse=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
to a witch washerwife doon the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 washerwife | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 washerwife | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 washerwife | compound |
| 4 | washerwife | washerwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | doon | doon | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 washerwife | 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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