Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

Where'd she sit to think it all over?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: sit, think · To what, where: it

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 sit	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 over	advmod
9	over	over	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	would	she						tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	she not said here	it				over property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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 bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	2 bed	case
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 door	case
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

at the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	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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