Test 3 · ★ · Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punishment, part 6: the p…
Why's the prince dodging his new wife all weeks, do you reckon?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince, you · What happens: dodge, reckon · To what, where: new wife
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1281 «Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punishment, part 6: the prince learns his bride's secret, and the rajah's daughter flees a jogi's love» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dodging | advmod |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dodging | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dodging | nsubj |
| 5 | dodging | dodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wife | amod |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dodging | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 weeks | det |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dodging | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reckon | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reckon | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 reckon | nsubj |
| 14 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dodging | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dodging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dodge | present · progressive | the prince | prince's new wife | week | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Location | |||
| 2 | reckon | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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
Dunno, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dunno | Dunno | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dunno | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dunno | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
He was off with the jogi's mates
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 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 was | compound:prt |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 mates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jogi | det |
| 6 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mates | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 jogi | case |
| 8 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be off | past | He | with the jogi's mates | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Cos he's scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 scared | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | cop |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | scared property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He wanted a bride the king picked
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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 7 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 king | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | He | a bride | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme king=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | pick | participle | the king not said here | vn chew-39.2 «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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