Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Bruv, what even is a pixy, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, you · What happens: be, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 innit	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pixy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pixy	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 pixy	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pixy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pixy	det
7	pixy	pixy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bruv	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bruv					pixy property	tree rules
2	innit	imperative	you not said here					Bruv vocative	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

Small fairies who steal milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fairies	amod
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 steal	nsubj
4	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fairies	acl:relcl
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	Small fairies	milk					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme

Option 2

Cow thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thieves	compound
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Little elves who herd the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 elves	amod
2	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 herd	nsubj
4	herd	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 elves	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 herd	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	present	Little elves	the sheep					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tiny magic folk who nick cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 folk	amod
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folk	compound
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 nick	nsubj
5	nick	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 folk	acl:relcl
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	present	Tiny magic folk	cows					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

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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