Test 12 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…
Whit did the spinnies' mooths look like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, mooths · What happens: do, look
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 262 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins a laird's bride, and he forbids her the spinning-wheel» 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spinnies | det |
| 4 | spinnies | spinny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mooths | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 spinnies | case |
| 6 | mooths | mooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 look | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | present | the spinnies's mooths | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
Ugly, with long noses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ugly | ugly | ADV | _ | 5 noses | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugly | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 noses | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noses | amod |
| 5 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ugly, the lips all twisted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ugly | ugly | ADV | _ | 4 lips | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugly | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lips | det |
| 4 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 twisted | advmod |
| 6 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lips | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bonnie, with bright eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonnie | bonnie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eyes | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bonnie | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ugly, the lips all twisted and the teeth all black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ugly | ugly | ADV | _ | 6 twisted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugly | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lips | det |
| 4 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 twisted | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 twisted | advmod |
| 6 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 teeth | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teeth | det |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 twisted | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 twisted | obl |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 all | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | the lips | all | all, ugly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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