Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…
was London Bridge really covered in shops back then?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cover back · To what, where: London
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 249 «English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar dreams of London Bridge and finds a treasure at home» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 2 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 London | flat |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 covered | advmod |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shops | case |
| 7 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 covered | advmod |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 covered | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover back | past · passive | London | then | in shops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in shop=Theme |
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
Nah, just a few shops by the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 shops | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 shops | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shops | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shops | amod |
| 6 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shops | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, shops from one end to the other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 shops | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 end | nummod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shops | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, shops on both sides, plenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 shops | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sides | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sides | det |
| 6 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shops | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plenty | punct |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shops | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, only a couple of houses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 couple | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 couple | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 couple | det |
| 5 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 houses | case |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 couple | 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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