Test 6 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…
So the cavalry reckoned his shouting was for the enemy, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cavalry, shouting · What happens: reckon, be, shout
This is test 6 · ★ 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 reckoned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cavalry | det |
| 3 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enemy | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shouting | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enemy | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enemy | cop |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 enemy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 enemy | det |
| 10 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 enemy | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 enemy | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 enemy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | the cavalry | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | cavalry's shouting | for the enemy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shout | cavalry | nom shouting «communication intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | they | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, dead tough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tough | amod |
| 4 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, they thought he was mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mad | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mad | cop |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | they | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | mad property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they thought he was tough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tough | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tough | cop |
| 7 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | they | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | tough property | tree rules |
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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