Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…
Bruv, what did the king threaten the boy with?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: threaten · To what, where: boy
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 threaten | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 threaten | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threaten | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | nsubj |
| 7 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 boy | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 threaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · do-support | the king | the boy | Bruv vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer boy=Result |
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 be thrown into the deep well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 thrown | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thrown | aux:pass |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 well | amod |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | to-infinitive · passive | into the deep well result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into well=Result |
Option 2
banishment from home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 home | case |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 banishment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
exile with his mother and all his goods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 mother | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 exile | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 goods | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 goods | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 goods | nmod:poss |
| 8 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 exile | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his head as forfeit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 forfeit | case |
| 4 | forfeit | forfeit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 head | 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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