Test 11 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…
So the king said sorry and promised no more wars, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: say, promise · To what, where: more wars · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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 | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 promised | cc |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 wars | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 wars | amod |
| 10 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 promised | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wars | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 promised | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: apologize | past | the king | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the king not said here | more wars | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent war=Theme |
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
Yeah, he'd stop fighting now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stop | xcomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fighting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | he | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | he not said here | now | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, no more wars ever, he promised everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wars | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wars | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wars | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 wars | amod |
| 5 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 promised | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 promised | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | no more wars | everyone | ever | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, no more wars ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wars | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wars | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wars | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 wars | amod |
| 5 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 wars | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, more wars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wars | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 wars | amod |
| 4 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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