Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

Howay, what was the thing she ended up dragging home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Howay · What happens: be, end up, drag · To what, where: thing

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Howay	Howay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ended	nsubj
8	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 ended	compound:prt
10	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ended	advcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 dragging	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Howay	the thing		tree rules
2	end up	past	Howay	the thing not said here		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient thing=Result
3	drag	gerund	Howay not said here		home property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a lump of iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a lump of lead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

rust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rust	rust	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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