Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…
Dude, what did the two guys in The Elf Maiden both want?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, both · What happens: do, want · To what, where: two guys, Elf Maiden
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | 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 | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guys | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 guys | nummod |
| 7 | guys | guy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Maiden | case |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Maiden | det |
| 10 | Elf | Elf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Maiden | compound |
| 11 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obl |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | the two guys | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want | present | both | the Elf Maiden | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
To win a boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 win | mark |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | a boat | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Eventuality |
Option 2
To catch big fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 catch | mark |
| 2 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 catch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | to-infinitive | big fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
Option 3
To claim the old canoe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 claim | mark |
| 2 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 canoe | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 canoe | amod |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 claim | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | the old canoe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent canoe=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To win the same girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 win | mark |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | the same girl | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality |
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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