Test 6 · ★ · Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the…
Seriously though, what's the sword's blade made of, is it actually diamond?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: diamond, blade · What happens: be, make · To what, where: blade, diamond
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1457 «Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the Cap, Sword and Shoes on his quest» 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 | Seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 2 though | advmod |
| 2 | though | though | ADV | _ | 16 diamond | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 though | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 blade | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 blade | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blade | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 9 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diamond | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 blade | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 made | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blade | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 diamond | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 diamond | nsubj |
| 15 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 16 diamond | advmod |
| 16 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 diamond | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | diamond | the sword's blade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the sword's blade not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the sword's blade | diamond | actually, though property | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a diamond blade, proper flashy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 blade | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blade | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blade | det |
| 4 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blade | compound |
| 5 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blade | punct |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flashy | amod |
| 8 | flashy | flashy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blade | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, a diamond blade, forged by the fairy smiths in the hills and it never gets dull no matter what you cut
The tree, 22 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 blade | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blade | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blade | det |
| 4 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blade | compound |
| 5 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forged | punct |
| 7 | forged | forge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 blade | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 smiths | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smiths | det |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 smiths | amod |
| 11 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forged | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hills | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hills | det |
| 14 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 smiths | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gets | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gets | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 gets | advmod |
| 18 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forged | conj |
| 19 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 matter | amod |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gets | obj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 cut | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 cut | nsubj |
| 24 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 matter | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | participle | a diamond blade not said here | by the fairy smiths in the hills | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by smith=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not get | present | blade | no dull matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer matter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cut | present | you | no dull matter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product |
Option 3
Yeah, a silver blade, proper shiny
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 blade | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blade | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blade | det |
| 4 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blade | amod |
| 5 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blade | punct |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shiny | amod |
| 8 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blade | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it's a proper diamond blade, cut right through stone and everything, proper flashy and sharp
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 blade | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 blade | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blade | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blade | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blade | amod |
| 7 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blade | compound |
| 8 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 blade | acl |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 stone | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 everything | cc |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 stone | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flashy | punct |
| 17 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flashy | amod |
| 18 | flashy | flashy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blade | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sharp | cc |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flashy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a proper diamond blade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | participle | a proper diamond blade not said here | through stone | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through stone=Patient |
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