Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…
Mate, who turned up looking dead ragged?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: turn up, look, rag
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 turned | compound:prt |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 turned | advcl |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ragged | amod |
| 8 | ragged | rag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 looking | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn up | past | Mate | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Mate not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rag | participle | Mate not said here | 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
the beggar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beggar | det |
| 2 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the little beggar boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 3 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the wee lad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lad | amod |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the ragged laddie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 laddie | det |
| 2 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 laddie | amod |
| 3 | laddie | laddie | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/261-pg14241-part28/t6/