Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…
Proper lush, the Marquis got fancy clothes, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Proper lush · What happens: get · To what, where: fancy clothes
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» 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 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lush | amod |
| 2 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lush | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Marquis | det |
| 5 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clothes | amod |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 got | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Proper lush | fancy clothes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus |
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, a fancy coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 coat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coat | det |
| 4 | fancy | fancy | 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 2
Yeah, the king sent a fine shirt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shirt | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shirt | amod |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | a fine shirt | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he bought a suit himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bought | nsubj |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 suit | det |
| 6 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 bought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | he | a suit | himself = he obl | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the king gave him his best suit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 suit | nmod:poss |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 suit | amod |
| 9 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | king's best suit | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient suit=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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