Test 6 · ★ · Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic…
dude, did the mirror actually kill the dragon?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do, kill · To what, where: mirror, dragon
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1262 «Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic fish gives a poor cobbler two sons who go looking for adventure» 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 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 dude | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mirror | det |
| 5 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 kill | advmod |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dude | the mirror | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | dude not said here | the dragon | actually property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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
sort of, it blinded the beast completely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blinded | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 sort | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 sort | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blinded | nsubj |
| 5 | blinded | blind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beast | det |
| 7 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blinded | obj |
| 8 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 5 blinded | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blind | past | sort | sort | completely property | tree rules |
Option 2
nope, the dragon hit the mirror and then fought the knight in a long battle of shadows
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 hit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mirror | det |
| 7 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fought | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 fought | advmod |
| 10 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fought | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 battle | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 battle | amod |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fought | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 shadows | case |
| 18 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 battle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | the dragon | the mirror | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mirror=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | the dragon not said here | the knight | a long battle of shadows | then | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | battle | shadows | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
nope, he kinda fought his own reflection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 fought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 fought | advmod |
| 5 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reflection | amod |
| 8 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | he | his own reflection | kinda property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reflection=Co-Agent |
Option 4
yes, the dragon died when the mirror broke into a thousand pieces on its head
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 died | nsubj |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 broke | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mirror | det |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 died | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thousand | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pieces | nummod |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broke | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the dragon | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | break | past | the mirror | thousand pieces | on mirror's head | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
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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