Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the…
Did the brothers end up locked up, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: end up, lock up
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brothers | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 end | nsubj |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 end | compound:prt |
| 6 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 end | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 locked | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 end | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | present | the brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lock up | participle | the brothers not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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
Yeah, they got put in gaol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 put | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gaol | case |
| 7 | gaol | gaol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | they | gaol | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in gaol=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they went to prison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 prison | case |
| 6 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | prison | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Nah, they didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | they | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, prison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 prison | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prison | punct |
| 3 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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