Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…
was the king a bit scared when the sword made that noise?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sword · What happens: be, make · To what, where: king, noise
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 king | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scared | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scared | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scared | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the sword | that noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he nearly dropped the knob
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dropped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 dropped | advmod |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knob | det |
| 7 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | the knob | nearly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knob=Theme |
Option 2
no, he just ran home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | he | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he laughed super loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | he | loud, super property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
nah, he fell asleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | he | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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