Test 8 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…
Why were the girls and their mum totally skint at the end?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: girls
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girls | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girls | det |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mum | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mum | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girls | conj |
| 8 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 9 skint | advmod |
| 9 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mum | amod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skint | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the girls and girls's mum | 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
The mules were stolen away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mules | det |
| 2 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux:pass |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 stolen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal away | past · passive | the mules | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
The veils were stolen by the soldiers on the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 veils | det |
| 2 | veils | veil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux:pass |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 soldiers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldiers | det |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stolen | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · passive | the soldiers | the veils | the road | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The veils didn't sell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 veils | det |
| 2 | veils | veil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sell | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sell | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sell | advmod |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sell | past · do-support | the veils | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The sultan took the cash
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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cash | det |
| 5 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the sultan | the cash | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=Theme |
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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