Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…
Did he really say he'd never sleep in a bed?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, say, not sleep · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sleep | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleep | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 sleep | advmod |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not sleep | would | he | a bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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
Yeah, while his work in the castle stood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 stood | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | his work in the castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | work | his = he | the castle | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
Option 2
Yeah, while his work in the castle stood tall and the dragon watched
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 stood | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watched | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watched | nsubj |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | his work in the castle | tall property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | the dragon | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | work | his = he | the castle | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he said he'd only sleep in a bed once the castle had fallen down
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sleep | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleep | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 sleep | advmod |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | obl |
| 12 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 16 fallen | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fallen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fallen | aux |
| 16 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 sleep | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 fallen | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep | would | he | a bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past · perfect | the castle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, while his horse was in the stable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 stable | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stable | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 stable | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stable | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stable | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stable | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stable | det |
| 9 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | his horse | the stable | 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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