Test 7 · ★★ · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…

The book's gipsy is «very fond of horse-dealing». How should we read that today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gipsy, we · What happens: be, read

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» of the history 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

Sentence 1: The book's gipsy is «very fond of horse-dealing».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gipsy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 book	case
4	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fond	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fond	cop
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 fond	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 fond	advmod
8	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 dealing	case
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dealing	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 dealing	punct
12	dealing	dealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fond	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 dealing	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the book's gipsy					of horse dealing; fond property	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.

Sentence 2: How should we read that today?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 read	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 today	det
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl:unmarked
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	should	we				today		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

As a rule written in the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 rule	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rule	det
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rule	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle		a rule not said here		the law			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in law=Destination

Option 2

As a true fact about every Romany person who has ever lived in Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 fact	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fact	det
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fact	amod
4	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 person	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 person	det
7	Romany	romany	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fact	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lived	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 lived	advmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 person	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Britain	case
14	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	every Romany person			Britain	ever		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in britain=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

As an old idea about a whole people, which is unfair to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 idea	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 idea	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 idea	amod
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 idea	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unfair	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 unfair	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unfair	cop
12	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 unfair	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a whole people		people			unfair property	tree rules

Option 4

As a joke about horses, not people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 joke	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 horses	case
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 joke	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 people	advmod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	conj

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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