Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…
Oi, what did the brothers show the King proudly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: show · To what, where: King
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 7 show | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 show | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brothers | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 show | nsubj |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 show | obj |
| 10 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 7 show | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the brothers | the King | proudly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient king=Topic |
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
Pieces of fine muslin from the royal weavers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 muslin | case |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 muslin | amod |
| 4 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pieces | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 weavers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weavers | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weavers | amod |
| 8 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pieces | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pieces of muslin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 muslin | case |
| 3 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pieces | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A long roll of muslin tied with gold thread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 roll | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roll | amod |
| 3 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 muslin | case |
| 5 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roll | nmod |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 roll | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 thread | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thread | compound |
| 9 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | participle | a long roll of muslin not said here | with gold thread | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with thread=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | roll | muslin | nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Bolts of silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 silk | case |
| 3 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bolts | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | silk | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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