Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…
ok but why did the golden ship turn black?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 9 black | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 black | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 black | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 black | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 turn | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turn | amod |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | compound |
| 8 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 black | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 black | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The old man used the ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the old man | the ring | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
Option 2
The King ordered it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the King | it | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The old man used the bronze ring to command it to turn black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 6 | bronze | bronze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ring | amod |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 command | mark |
| 9 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 command | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 turn | mark |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 command | advcl |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turn | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the old man | the bronze ring | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | ||||
| 2 | command | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | ring | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | black property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Because the gardener's son left the ring with the old man at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 left | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardener | det |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 gardener | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the gardener's son | the ring | with the old man at sea | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient with man=Theme |
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