Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11:…
Real talk, what did the giant want for the falcon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: do, want · To what, where: Real talk
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 falcon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 falcon | det |
| 11 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Real talk | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the giant | for the falcon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
Five chickens and a cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 chickens | nummod |
| 2 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cheese | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cheese | det |
| 5 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chickens | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A big pile of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pile | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pile | amod |
| 3 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pile | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A boat, like, a massive one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 4 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 one | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boat | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The White Sword of Light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sword | det |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sword | amod |
| 3 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Light | case |
| 5 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sword | nmod |
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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