Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

What's a hinny, like, in the north?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: hinny

This is test 13 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hinny	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hinny	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hinny	det
4	hinny	hinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 hinny	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 north	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 north	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 north	det
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hinny	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hinny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a hinny and the north					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

a Geordie word for a tool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	Geordie	Geordie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 word	compound
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 tool	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tool	det
6	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a term of love like pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 love	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 term	nmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 pet	case
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 term	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term			love				like pet	nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient like=obl

Option 3

a word for a small child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 child	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod

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

Option 4

a kind of hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hat	case
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	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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