Test 6 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, The Prince and the Dove-Bride: the fals…
Mate, what did the prince chop off with his sword?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: chop off
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1155 «Yule-Tide Stories, The Prince and the Dove-Bride: the false bride is unmasked and both wicked women are sent away» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chop | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 chop | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chop | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | nsubj |
| 7 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 chop | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sword | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 chop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop off | past · do-support | the prince | with prince's sword; Mate vocative | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent what=Patient with sword=Instrument |
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 right answer
The snake's head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 snake | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The snake's head, which he threw far into the sea after the fight.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 snake | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 threw | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 fight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fight | det |
| 15 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the snake's head | after the fight | into the sea result; far property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into sea=Result |
Option 3
The snake's body whole.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 body | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 snake | case |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 body | amod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 body | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The dragon's wing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wing | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dragon | case |
| 4 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wing | punct |
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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