Test 12 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…
The verse says the little one gets honour, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: verse, little one · What happens: say, get · To what, where: honour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 verse | det |
| 2 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 honour | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 gets | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the verse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | present | the little one | honour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, through unforeseen events that nobody could predict
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 events | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 events | punct |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 events | case |
| 4 | unforeseen | unforeseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 events | amod |
| 5 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 predict | nsubj |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 predict | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 predict | aux |
| 9 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 events | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predict | could | unforeseen events | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, through wicked tricks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 tricks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 tricks | case |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tricks | amod |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, through sudden events
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 events | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 events | punct |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 events | case |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 events | amod |
| 5 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, through unforeseen events
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 events | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 events | punct |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 events | case |
| 4 | unforeseen | unforeseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 events | amod |
| 5 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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