Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…
bro, where did the captain end up stuck?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: do, end up
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 captain | det |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nsubj |
| 7 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 end | compound:prt |
| 9 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 end | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bro vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | end up | present | the captain | stuck property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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
In a dark harbour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 harbour | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 harbour | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 harbour | amod |
| 4 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
On a distant island where the cats had been turned into beasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 island | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 3 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 island | amod |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 turned | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cats | det |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 turned | aux:pass |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 island | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 beasts | case |
| 12 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · perfect · passive | the cats | beasts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into beast=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
On an island full of mice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 island | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 island | det |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 island | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mice | case |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
On an island full of mice who spoke and ruled a whole kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 island | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 island | det |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ruled | nsubj |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 island | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mice | case |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 spoke | nsubj |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mice | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spoke | cc |
| 10 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kingdom | amod |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ruled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | mice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rule | past | a island | a whole kingdom | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
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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