Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…
where's the mole the king has to stab?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mole, king · What happens: be, have, stab
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mole | det |
| 4 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 where | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 where | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stab | mark |
| 9 | stab | stab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 has | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the mole | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stab | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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
on his chin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 chin | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 chin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
left side of his neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 side | amod |
| 2 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 neck | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 side | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
right side of his neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 side | amod |
| 2 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 neck | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 side | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
back of his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 back | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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