Test 6 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…
bet you can't guess what the king promised the finder?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: bet, not guess, promise · To what, where: finder
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 guess | advmod |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 bet | conj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 promised | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 finder | det |
| 11 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promised | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | imperative | you not said here | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not guess | can | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the king | the finder | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal finder=Theme |
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
the crown after his death, the princess as bride, and a full palace of treasures for his family
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crown | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 bride | case |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 palace | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 palace | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 treasures | case |
| 17 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 palace | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 family | nmod:poss |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | his = he | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
lands and a fat purse of gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 purse | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 purse | det |
| 4 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 purse | amod |
| 5 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lands | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 coins | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coins | compound |
| 8 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 lands | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the crown plus the princess's hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 7 hand | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the whole kingdom's throne plus the princess's hand in marriage and a great royal wedding
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kingdom | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kingdom | amod |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throne | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 kingdom | case |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 10 hand | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throne | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 marriage | case |
| 12 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wedding | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wedding | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wedding | amod |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wedding | amod |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throne | conj |
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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