Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

Mate, who was right about the arrow, the prince or the gardener's boy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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	5 right	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 right	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 arrow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arrow	det
8	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prince	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrow	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 boy	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gardener	det
14	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boy	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 gardener	case
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrow	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mate					about the arrow or the gardener's boy; right 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 · ← Mova's choice

the sultan's son

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 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sultan	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the gardener's boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

both of them, since both arrows struck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 struck	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 both	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 both	punct
5	since	since	ADP	_	7 arrows	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 arrows	det
7	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 both	nmod
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	both						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the prince, because his bow was finer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 finer	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 finer	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bow	nmod:poss
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finer	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finer	cop
8	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 prince	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his bow					fine property	tree rules

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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