Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…
Mate, who did the hermit say the princess would marry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: say, marry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 say | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hermit | det |
| 6 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marry | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 marry | aux |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Mate vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry | would | the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
a son born to the slave girl Puruna in the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 son | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | compound |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 8 | Puruna | Puruna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 north | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 north | det |
| 11 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | a son not said here | the north | to the slave girl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
a brave soldier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a slave girl's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the son of a slave woman who would one day rule the great kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rule | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | compound |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rule | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rule | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 rule | aux |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rule | compound |
| 11 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kingdom | amod |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rule | 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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