Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Which saucer was the best, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: saucer · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 saucer	det
2	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 best	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	vocative
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which saucer					mate vocative; good property	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

The middling one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	compound
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The middle one, it was warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warm	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 warm	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 warm	cop
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the middle one					warm property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The little one, it was sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sweet	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sweet	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sweet	cop
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little one					sweet property	tree rules

Option 4

The biggest one, it was hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hot	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hot	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hot	cop
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the biggest one					hot property	tree rules

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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