Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…
Ngl, what do the sphinxes do to the King's sword?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, sphinxes · What happens: do
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sphinxes | det |
| 6 | sphinxes | sphinx | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sword | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Ngl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the sphinxes | to the King's sword | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Fall helpless at the feet of the King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fall | xcomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feet | det |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fall | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 feet | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | imperative | you not said here | the feet of the King | helpless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Fall helpless at his feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fall | xcomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | imperative | you not said here | his feet | helpless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
Option 3
Turn and run away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 run | cc |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | conj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run away | infinitive | you not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Fall down helpless and die at his feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Fall | compound:prt |
| 3 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fall | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 die | cc |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fall | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 die | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | imperative | you not said here | helpless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | present | you not said here | his feet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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