Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…
Was his bro actually chilling in the city, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: bro, city
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1263 «Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the castle» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bro | cop |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bro | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chilling | csubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 chilling | advmod |
| 5 | chilling | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chilling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 chilling | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chilling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | his bro | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chill | gerund | the city | actually property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 was living in a palace
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 | 3 living | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 living | aux |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 living | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | He | a palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
Option 2
Yeah, he was at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 home | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 home | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 home | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | home | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was out there, wandering about
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 | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandering | punct |
| 6 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 there | advcl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 wandering | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | out, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | He not said here | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
He was stuck in the dungeon
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 | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | cop |
| 3 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dungeon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dungeon | det |
| 6 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | the dungeon | stuck property | tree rules |
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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