Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…
what did the queen say the Gruagach would ask first?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: queen, Gruagach · What happens: do, say, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gruagach | det |
| 7 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | aux |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 ask | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | would | the Gruagach | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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
how he's feeling today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 feeling | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feeling | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | aux |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | he | today | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
why he's so late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 late | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | late property | tree rules |
Option 3
where he got the horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | the horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
if he got the sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 got | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | the sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
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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