Test 6 · ★ · Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves th…
What did the birds gie him for the race, pal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: birds · What happens: do, gie · To what, where: him
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses him» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gie | nsubj |
| 5 | gie | gie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gie | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 race | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gie | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pal | punct |
| 11 | pal | pal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 race | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | gie | present | the birds | him = he | for the race and pal | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A fine horse, a grand dress, glass shoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dress | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dress | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dress | amod |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shoes | punct |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoes | compound |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A horse, a silver crown, glass boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crown | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crown | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crown | amod |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boots | punct |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boots | compound |
| 9 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A horse and shoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shoes | cc |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A fine cart, a silk robe, golden spurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cart | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cart | amod |
| 3 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 robe | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 robe | det |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 robe | compound |
| 7 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cart | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spurs | punct |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spurs | amod |
| 10 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cart | conj |
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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