Test 12 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…
what even is a sealskin dwarf, a dwarf who wears seal skin, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, wear, seal · To what, where: sealskin dwarf, skin
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 dwarf | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dwarf | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dwarf | det |
| 5 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwarf | compound |
| 6 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dwarf | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dwarf | det |
| 9 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 what | parataxis |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wears | nsubj |
| 11 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dwarf | conj |
| 12 | seal | seal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wears | ccomp |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seal | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| 15 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 what | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sealskin dwarf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wear | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | seal | present | skin | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
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
no, a fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 fish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yes, a dwarf in a seal coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 dwarf | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dwarf | det |
| 4 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 coat | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coat | det |
| 7 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coat | compound |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwarf | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yes, a seal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 seal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 seal | det |
| 4 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yes, a dwarf dressed in seal fur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 dwarf | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dwarf | det |
| 4 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dwarf | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fur | case |
| 7 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fur | compound |
| 8 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | a dwarf not said here | seal fur | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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