Test 1 · ★ · Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a stra…

Yo, so the stranger dude with the wicked spears, is he actually a prince or just bragging?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stranger dude, prince · What happens: be, brag · To what, where: prince

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1056 «Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a strange lord arrives by sea and challenges the Fianna to a contest» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	19 bragging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	16 prince	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dude	compound
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prince	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 spears	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spears	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spears	amod
10	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dude	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 prince	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prince	nsubj
14	actually	actually	ADV	_	16 prince	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bragging	nsubj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 bragging	cc
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 bragging	advmod
19	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 bragging	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the stranger dude with the wicked spears	a prince				actually property	tree rules
2	brag speech: other	gerund	a prince						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Just bragging, no prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 bragging	advmod
2	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 prince	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bragging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	gerund		no prince					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Prince of Thessaly, son to a chief, as he says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	compound
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Thessaly	case
3	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 chief	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chief	det
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 says	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Prince son to a chief						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Prince, like he says, son to the King of Thessaly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 says	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Thessaly	case
12	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 King	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Prince	son	the King of Thessaly				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Topic to king=Recipient

Option 4

Prince, son of a chief of Thrace, like he claims

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Prince	punct
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claims	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chief	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chief	det
6	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Thrace	case
8	Thrace	Thrace	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chief	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 claims	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 claims	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 claims	nsubj
12	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	present	Prince son of a chief of Thrace						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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