Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…
Was the castle on a mountain, or was it, like, in a swamp?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: castle, mountain
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1240 «Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince climbs to the princess's window» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 castle | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swamp | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 castle | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 it | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 it | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 it | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swamp | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swamp | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 swamp | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swamp | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 swamp | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 swamp | det |
| 16 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 swamp | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the castle | a mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | castle | 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
In a forest of tall pines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pines | case |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pines | amod |
| 6 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
On a mountain, or maybe in a swamp, I'm not sure which
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 mountain | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sure | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swamp | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 swamp | cc |
| 6 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 9 swamp | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 swamp | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 swamp | det |
| 9 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mountain | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mountain | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sure | advmod |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sure | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | a mountain | sure property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
On the top of a mountain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In a swamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 swamp | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 swamp | det |
| 3 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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