Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the he…
No way, the wife had a rope the whole time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: have · To what, where: way
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1242 «Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the herb saves the prince from the crocodile» 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the wife | no way | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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
Nah, she only had a small stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stick | amod |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | she | a small stick | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she came running and pulled him out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pulled | cc |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pulled | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 pulled | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | she | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | she not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull out | past | she not said here | him = he | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, she threw him a long branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 threw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 branch | amod |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | she | a long branch | him = he | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination branch=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, just a stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stick | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stick | det |
| 5 | stick | stick | 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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