--- title: Was Burd Ellen all fancy with her gear? — English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Was Burd Ellen all fancy with her gear? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1961-pg7439-part20/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1961-pg7439-part20/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland… Was Burd Ellen all fancy with her gear? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Burd This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1961-pg7439-part20/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1961-pg7439-part20:t7:1 # text = Was Burd Ellen all fancy with her gear? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 2 Burd Burd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 Ellen Ellen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | Burd | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Yeah, velvet, silk and gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1961-pg7439-part20:t7:o1:1 # text = Yeah, velvet, silk and gold 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, she turned up in rags and a plain grey cloak ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1961-pg7439-part20:t7:o2:1 # text = Nah, she turned up in rags and a plain grey cloak 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rags rag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn up** | past | she | | | rags and a plain grey cloak | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rag=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, just rags and cloth ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1961-pg7439-part20:t7:o3:1 # text = Nah, just rags and cloth 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 rags rag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, silver and furs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1961-pg7439-part20:t7:o4:1 # text = Yeah, silver and furs 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 furs fur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 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. 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