Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-princ…
Mate, what did the bee want off the boy when he was dead hungry?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, want, be · To what, where: bee
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1229 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-prince steals the sword, and the mermaid pulls him under the waves» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mate | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bee | det |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 boy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obl |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 hungry | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hungry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hungry | cop |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hungry | amod |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 want | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | the bee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want | present | Mate | off the boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | past | Mate | hungry 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
Half of the boy's food and all of his drink for the journey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 boy | case |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Half | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 drink | det |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 drink | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 drink | nmod:poss |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Half | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 journey | det |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drink | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A piece of bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bread | case |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Something to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 eat | mark |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Something | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The boy's whole supply of bread and cheese from his pack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 supply | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 boy | case |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 supply | amod |
| 5 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 supply | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cheese | cc |
| 9 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 supply | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 pack | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pack | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 supply | 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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