Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…
Who told the knight the whole plan, man?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: tell · To what, where: whole plan, knight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plan | amod |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plan | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the whole plan | the knight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient plan=Topic |
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
the hermit of Blavet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hermit | det |
| 2 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Blavet | case |
| 4 | Blavet | Blavet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hermit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the wise old hermit who lived in a cave beside the Blavet river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hermit | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hermit | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hermit | amod |
| 4 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hermit | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 12 | Blavet | Blavet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 river | compound |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the wise old hermit | a cave | beside the Blavet river | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
Option 3
the wizard Rogear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rogear | det |
| 2 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rogear | amod |
| 3 | Rogear | Rogear | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the miller's wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miller | det |
| 2 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 miller | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1318-pg3454-part43/t10/