Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…
Lol, so the king said whoever sorted it gets the princess AND half the kingdom? Sick deal!
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, whoever, it · What happens: say, sort, get · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» 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
Sentence 1: Lol, so the king said whoever sorted it gets the princess AND half the kingdom?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gets | advcl |
| 7 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sorted | nsubj |
| 8 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gets | nsubj |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gets | obj |
| 13 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kingdom | cc |
| 14 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 16 kingdom | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 princess | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sort | past | whoever | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | present | it | the princess and half kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: Sick deal!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 deal | amod |
| 2 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 deal | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
no, just the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 princess | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 princess | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yes, that was the offer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 offer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 offer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 offer | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 offer | det |
| 6 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the offer | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yes, the king said it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 4
yes, it was the king's exact offer to anyone who solved it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 offer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 offer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 offer | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 offer | amod |
| 9 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 offer | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 solved | nsubj |
| 13 | solved | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 solved | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | the king's exact offer | to anyone | tree rules | |||
| 2 | solve | past | offer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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