Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the…
Wait, did the gnome throw a stone or a thunderbolt?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, throw · To what, where: gnome, stone
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gnome | det |
| 5 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throw | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 thunderbolt | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thunderbolt | det |
| 11 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | the gnome | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | a stone or a thunderbolt | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
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
a thunderbolt at her and then a stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thunderbolt | det |
| 2 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thunderbolt | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stone | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stone | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thunderbolt | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a huge thunderbolt aimed directly at her head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thunderbolt | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thunderbolt | amod |
| 3 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thunderbolt | acl |
| 5 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 aimed | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aimed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim | participle | a huge thunderbolt not said here | her head | directly property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a thunderbolt at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thunderbolt | det |
| 2 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thunderbolt | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a golden spear at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spear | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spear | amod |
| 3 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spear | 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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