Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…
lol, how was the captain dressed when he came to the palace?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: be, dress, come · To what, where: palace
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1415 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship turns black after the old man steals the 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 dressed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dressed | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 captain | det |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dressed | nsubj |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dressed | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | how property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dress | participle | the captain | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | captain | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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
Like a prince in silk, with gold rings and a sword at his side
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 silk | case |
| 5 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rings | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rings | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | compound |
| 9 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prince | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sword | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Like a prince in silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 silk | case |
| 5 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In a plain brown coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 coat | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coat | det |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coat | amod |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coat | amod |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Dressed in fine silk and velvet like a rich merchant from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 silk | case |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 silk | amod |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dressed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 velvet | cc |
| 6 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silk | conj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 merchant | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 merchant | amod |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dressed | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | fine silk and velvet | like a rich merchant; from the sea | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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