Test 1 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy golds…
yo, did the goldsmith really sell his dead wife, or is that a total lie?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: goldsmith · What happens: sell, be · To what, where: dead wife, total lie
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1153 «Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy goldsmith is undone, and a kind stepdaughter is rewarded by doves» 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 | _ | 7 sell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sell | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goldsmith | det |
| 5 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sell | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 sell | advmod |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sell | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lie | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 lie | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lie | cop |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lie | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lie | det |
| 16 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lie | amod |
| 17 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past · do-support | the goldsmith | goldsmith's dead wife or a total lie | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the goldsmith not said here | a total lie | 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
Yeah, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bro | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, no way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 way | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, he never sold her, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 sold | advmod |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fam | punct |
| 8 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sell | past | he | her = she | fam obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Lol, yeah he sold her, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 sold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sold | discourse |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bro | punct |
| 8 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | he | her = she | bro vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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