Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…
Wot did the hermit reckon he was reading?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot, hermit · What happens: do, reckon, read · To what, where: hermit
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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 | Wot | Wot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hermit | det |
| 4 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hermit | acl:relcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reading | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reading | aux |
| 8 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 reckon | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Wot | the hermit | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reckon | infinitive | the hermit not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | read | past · progressive | Wot | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
men's destinies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 destinies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 men | case |
| 3 | destinies | destiny | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
kings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
people's fates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fates | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 people | case |
| 3 | fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fate | people | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1253-pg3282-part54/t8/