Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…
Innit weird, the king's sword was the price, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sword · What happens: be · To what, where: weird price
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 weird | compound |
| 2 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 price | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 price | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 price | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 price | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 price | det |
| 10 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 price | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 10 price | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 price | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's sword | the weird price | 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 · ← Mova's choice
The showman's old leather belt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 showman | det |
| 2 | showman | showman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belt | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 showman | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 belt | amod |
| 5 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belt | compound |
| 6 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coins | det |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The sword the showman wore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 showman | det |
| 4 | showman | showman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the sword and the showman | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The sword the showman wore at his side and the king's ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 showman | det |
| 4 | showman | showman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ring | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ring | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the sword | showman's side | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at side=Source |
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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