Test 11 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…
so the prince was rude to the king's first messenger, no?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1294 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part 1: Toueno-Boueno catches a wolf by the tail and sells it as a ram, and the wolf ruins the brothers' sheep» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 rude | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 messenger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 messenger | amod |
| 11 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rude | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 rude | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 rude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | to the king's first messenger; rude property | 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
Yeah the prince insulted him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 insulted | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 insulted | nsubj |
| 4 | insulted | insult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 insulted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insult | past | the prince | him = he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah the prince was rude to the king's first messenger, so the king sent a second
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rude | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 messenger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 messenger | amod |
| 11 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sent | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | to the king's first messenger; rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the king | second | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah the king was rude to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 rude | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rude | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | him = he | rude property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah the prince was rude to the king's messenger, and the king sent the carriage to fetch him
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rude | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | cop |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 messenger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rude | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rude | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 carriage | det |
| 17 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fetch | mark |
| 19 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fetch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | to the king's messenger; rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the king | the carriage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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