Test 9 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…
Wait, how many sons did the old king have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many sons · What happens: wait, do, have · To what, where: old king
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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 did | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sons | amod |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 did | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | 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 | do | past | many sons | the old king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | many sons not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
Two, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Two | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Six, all of them strong at riding and archery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Six | amod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 riding | case |
| 8 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 archery | cc |
| 10 | archery | archery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 riding | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Seven, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Seven | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Seven, all of them clever at princely stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 clever | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clever | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 clever | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 stuff | case |
| 8 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stuff | amod |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clever | obl |
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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