Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…
mate, who did the coachman ask if the girl had served him proper?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: ask, serve · To what, where: mate, girl
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coachman | det |
| 6 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 served | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 served | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 served | aux |
| 12 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 served | obj |
| 14 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 12 served | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | mate | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | serve a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the girl | properly 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
Sam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
James
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Harold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harold | Harold | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | 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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