Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the…
How'd the brothers know they'd found the right place?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: find · To what, where: right place
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1525 «Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the brothers find the King of the Peacocks and go to prison» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · perfect | brothers = brother | the right place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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
Golden birds on every gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 birds | amod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 gate | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Peacocks in every tree, loud cries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Peacocks | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cries | punct |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cries | amod |
| 7 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Peacocks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By the loud cries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 cries | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cries | det |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cries | amod |
| 4 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Peacocks were on the roof, cries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roof | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roof | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 roof | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 roof | det |
| 5 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cries | punct |
| 7 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roof | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peacocks | the roof and cries | tree rules |
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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