Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…
What did the girl have to do for three days?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: do, have
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
stay in the kitchen and sew cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 kitchen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kitchen | det |
| 4 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 stay | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sew | cc |
| 6 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 stay | conj |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sew | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | the kitchen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location | ||||
| 2 | sew | infinitive | you not said here | cloth | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Product |
Option 2
sit at the back door and watch the road and never leave the house once
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | compound |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sit | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watch | cc |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 sit | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watch | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leave | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 leave | advmod |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 sit | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | the back door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | you not said here | the road | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not leave | infinitive | you not said here | the house | once property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
sit at the back door and watch the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | compound |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sit | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watch | cc |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 sit | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | the back door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | you not said here | the road | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
sit at the back door all day long and watch the road for any sign of the rider
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | compound |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sit | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 sit | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watch | cc |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 sit | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watch | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sign | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 sign | det |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watch | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rider | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rider | det |
| 18 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sign | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | the back door | day | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | you not said here | the road | for any sign of the rider | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Location for sign=Theme | |||
| 3 | sign | the rider | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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