Test 13 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…
Bet, what was the Governor's new test?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: be · To what, where: new test
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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 | Bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 test | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 test | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 test | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Governor | det |
| 6 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 test | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Governor | case |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 test | amod |
| 9 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bet | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bet and the Governor's new test | the Governor's new test | 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 · ✓ the right answer
steal twelve horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 horses | nummod |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 steal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present | twelve horses | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
Option 2
rob the stable boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 3 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boys | amod |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 rob | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | imperative | you not said here | the stable boys | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Source |
Option 3
steal a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 steal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | imperative | you not said here | a horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
Option 4
steal the gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gold | det |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 steal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | imperative | you not said here | the gold | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=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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