Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Pedlar of Swaffham: a poor pedlar…
so the treasure was just chilling under his own tree?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: treasure · What happens: chill · To what, where: own tree
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 chilling | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treasure | det |
| 3 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chilling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chilling | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 chilling | advmod |
| 6 | chilling | chill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tree | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chilling | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 chilling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | past · progressive | the treasure | treasure's own tree | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Yeah, at the far end of town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 end | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 5 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | amod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, in the woods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 woods | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 woods | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 woods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woods | det |
| 5 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, in a field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 field | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 field | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, right behind his house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 house | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 house | advmod |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | 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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