Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…
The heralds were shouting about a reward, right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: heralds · What happens: shout
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heralds | det |
| 2 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shouting | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouting | aux |
| 4 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 reward | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reward | det |
| 7 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 shouting | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past · progressive | the heralds | about a reward | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about reward=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
Yeah, for whoever can find the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 find | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 4 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | can | whoever | the princess | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, for whoever can cure the old King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 cure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cure | punct |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 cure | mark |
| 4 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cure | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cure | aux |
| 6 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 King | amod |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cure | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | can | whoever | the old King | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer king=Source |
Option 3
Yeah, for a dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 dog | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, for a feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 feast | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 feast | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 feast | det |
| 5 | feast | feast | 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.
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