Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…
Eh, what were the king's servants tied up with, like, pure bound?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servants · What happens: be, tie up · To what, where: servants
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Eh | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servants | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 what | nsubj |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 servants | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 tied | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bound | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bound | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 bound | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 15 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bound | amod |
| 16 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's servants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tie up | participle | the king's servants not said here | with pure bound | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with bound=Co-Patient |
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 · ← Mova's choice
strong ropes round their gobs and their hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ropes | amod |
| 2 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 gobs | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gobs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gobs | gob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ropes | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hands | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ropes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ropes round their wrists
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 wrists | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wrists | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 ropes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
cloths round their gobs and their backs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 gobs | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gobs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gobs | gob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 cloths | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 backs | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 backs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 cloths | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
cloths round their gobs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 gobs | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gobs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gobs | gob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 cloths | 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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