Test 7 · ★ · Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic…
wait, what did the knight do after the dragon fell?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dragon · What happens: wait, do, fall · To what, where: knight
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fell | aux |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 fell | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | 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 | the knight | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fall | present · do-support | the dragon | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
he waited for it to wake up and then struck it again in the back
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wake | mark |
| 6 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waited | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 wake | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 struck | advmod |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 struck | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | he | for it | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wake up | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | he not said here | it | the back | then; again | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
lanced it right through the throat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lanced | lance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 lanced | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 throat | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 throat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 throat | det |
| 6 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 lanced | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lance | past | it | the throat | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3
he put his sword away and walked away from the great beast in silence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walked | cc |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 beast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beast | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beast | amod |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 silence | case |
| 14 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beast | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put away | past | he | his sword | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sword=Goal | |||
| 2 | walk away | past | he not said here | the great beast in silence | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from beast=Source |
Option 4
he rode home and told the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | he | the king | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | he not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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