Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, Muffette, the dragon's dinner and the prince's…
Wait, so the king swore on his crown, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: wait, swear, crown · To what, where: crown
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1182 «Fairy Book, Muffette, the dragon's dinner and the prince's sword: the princess is saved from a monster» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swore | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 swore | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swore | nsubj |
| 6 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 crown | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 crown | nmod:poss |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swore | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swore | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Wait | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swear | past | the king | king's crown | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | crown | king | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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, by his crown and sceptre and his whole kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 crown | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crown | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 crown | nmod:poss |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sceptre | cc |
| 7 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kingdom | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kingdom | amod |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he swore by his crown and sceptre but then broke it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 swore | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swore | nsubj |
| 4 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 crown | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 crown | nmod:poss |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swore | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sceptre | cc |
| 9 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crown | conj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 broke | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 broke | advmod |
| 12 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swore | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 broke | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | he | by his crown and sceptre | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | break | past | he not said here | sceptre | then | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||
| 3 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, by his crown and sceptre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 crown | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crown | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 crown | nmod:poss |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sceptre | cc |
| 7 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
yeah, by his sword and shield
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sword | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sword | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shield | cc |
| 7 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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