Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-princ…
Who was the sneaky knight that tried to nick the sword?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sneaky knight · What happens: be, try, nick · To what, where: sneaky knight, sword
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 knight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knight | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knight | det |
| 4 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knight | amod |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knight | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 nick | mark |
| 9 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sword | det |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nick | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 knight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sneaky knight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | past | the sneaky knight | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | nick not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sneaky knight not said here | the sword | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
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
The Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Black Knight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Knight | det |
| 2 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Knight | amod |
| 3 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Red Knight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Knight | det |
| 2 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Knight | flat |
| 3 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Green Squire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Squire | det |
| 2 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Squire | amod |
| 3 | Squire | squire | 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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