Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…
So the everlasting flowers were the cure, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everlasting flowers · What happens: be · To what, where: cure
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 cure | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flowers | det |
| 3 | everlasting | everlasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flowers | compound |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cure | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cure | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cure | det |
| 7 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cure | punct |
| 9 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 cure | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cure | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the everlasting flowers | the cure | tree rules |
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
Yeah, with the witch's tears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 tears | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tears | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 witch | case |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, with dragon's blood and the magic water from the old well too
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 blood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blood | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blood | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 water | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blood | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 old | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 old | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blood | amod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 old | advmod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, with dragon's blood too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 blood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blood | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blood | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 blood | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they were only ordinary flowers, and the cure was the magic water
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 flowers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flowers | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flowers | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 flowers | advmod |
| 6 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flowers | amod |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 water | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cure | det |
| 11 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 water | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 water | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowers | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | they | ordinary flowers and the magic water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the cure | the magic water | 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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