Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three ma…
So the king was proper scared in the end?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be · To what, where: end
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1167 «Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three magic gifts, tricks his way to the top, and wins the king's daughter» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 scared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scared | cop |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 scared | advmod |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scared | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | in the end | properly, scared property | 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
Nah, only a few guards came.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 guards | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guards | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guards | amod |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a few guards | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, ten thousand horsemen surrounded him.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 surrounded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thousand | compound |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 horsemen | nummod |
| 5 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 surrounded | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 surrounded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle · passive | thousand horsemen | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, not really.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, ten thousand horsemen cornered his men.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 cornered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cornered | punct |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thousand | compound |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 horsemen | nummod |
| 5 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cornered | nsubj |
| 6 | cornered | corner | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cornered | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cornered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | corner | past | thousand horsemen | his men | tree rules |
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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