Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…
Sick, what dress did the bird bring her for the ball?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bird · What happens: sick, bring · To what, where: her
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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 | Sick | sick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | obj |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sick | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 ball | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sick | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · do-support | the bird | her = she | for the ball | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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
A dress of green silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dress | det |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 silk | case |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 silk | amod |
| 5 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dress | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A gold and silver dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dress | cc |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dress | compound |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A grey frock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 frock | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 frock | amod |
| 3 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A blue velvet coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coat | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 3 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coat | compound |
| 4 | coat | coat | 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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