Test 13 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…
what's he want to help him, bro?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, help · To what, where: him
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 want | obj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bro | punct |
| 9 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | parataxis |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | want property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | him = he | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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
gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coins | compound |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a good horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a fast horse, some money, and a letter from the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 money | punct |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 money | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 letter | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 letter | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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