Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

How did it laugh at her, the cheeky thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: laugh

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 laugh	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laugh	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · do-support	it					at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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

like a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

like a sly grinning fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	5 fox	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fox	det
3	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fox	amod
4	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fox	amod
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

rudely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

like a naughty mocking boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 boy	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
3	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
4	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
5	boy	boy	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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