Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen ros…
so the dad's sons are going to fight the Beast, are they
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sons · What happens: go, fight, be · To what, where: Beast
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1438 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen rose and the Beast's bargain» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dad | det |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sons | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dad | case |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fight | mark |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Beast | det |
| 11 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 13 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | conj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 are | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | the dad's sons | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | the dad's sons not said here | the Beast | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | does | present | sons = son | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 fight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, they don't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | present | they | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah they wanna kill him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kill | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | wanna | wanna | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | they | him = he | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah they wanna help him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 wanna | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanna | nsubj |
| 3 | wanna | wanna | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanna | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanna | past | they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | they not said here | him = he | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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