Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…
Who's the lame lady with the dodgy curl, the gossip queen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: lame lady
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 curl | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 curl | det |
| 8 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 curl | amod |
| 9 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 queen | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 12 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 queen | compound |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curl | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lame lady | with the dodgy curl and the gossip queen | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Martha
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ann
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the gossiping old lady from the mill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 2 | gossiping | gossiping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | compound |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mill | det |
| 7 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | nmod |
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/843-pg27200-part54/t4/