Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…
bet the brown horse was the fastest one, right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, brown horse · What happens: bet, be · To what, where: fastest one
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bet | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bet | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 bet | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | imperative | you not said here | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the brown horse | the fastest one | 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
nope, the king walked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | 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 | walk | past | the king | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
nah, a black horse was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 horse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | 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 | be | past | a black horse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, the wind could not catch it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 catch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 catch | advmod |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | could | the wind | it | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
nah, the grey mare was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mare | det |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mare | amod |
| 5 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | 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 | be | past | the grey mare | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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