Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

So the old dear got a pot, right, what was in it first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old dear · What happens: get, be · To what, where: pot

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dear	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	amod
4	dear	dear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	11 what	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 got	parataxis
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 what	acl:relcl
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 what	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the old dear	a pot					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus
2	is	past				pot			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

silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a heap of gleaming gold coins and jewels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 gleaming	mark
4	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 heap	acl
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	compound
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gleaming	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jewels	cc
8	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gleam	gerund	a heap not said here	gold coins and jewels					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	compound
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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