Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his do…
Hold up, what's a courtier even?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold up, be · To what, where: courtier
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1478 «Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his dog, is pricked by the ring, and Celia vanishes from her locked room» 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Hold | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 courtier | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 courtier | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 courtier | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 courtier | det |
| 7 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obl |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 1 Hold | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | imperative | you not said here | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a courtier | 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 · ← Mova's choice
A nobleman who attended the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 attended | nsubj |
| 4 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nobleman | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attended | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past | a nobleman | the king | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Goal |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A lord who hung around the king's court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lord | acl:relcl |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | a lord | the king's court | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around court=Location |
Option 3
A lord who spent all his days hunting in the forest and eating at the king's table with his friends
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 days | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 days | nmod:poss |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obj |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spent | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eating | cc |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hunting | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 table | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eating | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 friends | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eating | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | a lord | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | a lord not said here | the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | a lord not said here | the king's table | with lord's friends | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A high official in the king's house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 official | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 official | amod |
| 3 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 official | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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