Test 3 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…
Wait, who was the bloke who nicked the sultan's gold?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bloke · What happens: wait, be, nick · To what, where: bloke, gold
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1234 «Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lies in bed while his mules bring home gold» 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 bloke | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 bloke | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bloke | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bloke | det |
| 6 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 nicked | nsubj |
| 8 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bloke | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sultan | det |
| 10 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 sultan | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nicked | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | 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 | is a | past | the bloke | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | nick | past | the bloke | the sultan's gold | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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 bloke from the village who borrowed the mules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bloke | det |
| 2 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bloke | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 borrowed | nsubj |
| 7 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 village | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mules | det |
| 9 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 borrowed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | the village | the mules | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme |
Option 2
The man from the city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 city | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The man from the village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The sultan's guard from the far city beyond the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guard | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sultan | case |
| 4 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guard | nmod |
| 9 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 11 hills | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hills | det |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 city | nmod |
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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