Test 3 · ★ · Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monk…
Did the prince just fall for the princess straight away?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: fall
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1258 «Indian Tales, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey, part 59: the clever tortoise tricks an elephant and a whale into a tug-of-war» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 fall | advmod |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | obl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 fall | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · do-support | the prince | for the princess; away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for princess=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 · ✓ the right answer
Yup, head over ears, instantly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 head | punct |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yup | conj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Yup | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yup | punct |
| 7 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 1 Yup | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nope, took ages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 3 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | ages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he needed to think it over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 needed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 needed | nsubj |
| 4 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 needed | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 think | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 think | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think over speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | it | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, they met after a long time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 met | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | they | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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