Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…
Mate, what did the nurse promise the boatman?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: promise · To what, where: boatman
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 promise | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 promise | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nurse | det |
| 6 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | nsubj |
| 7 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boatman | det |
| 9 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · do-support | the nurse | the boatman | Mate vocative | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal boatman=Theme |
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
a boat full of diamonds and rubies from the King's treasure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | nsubj |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 diamonds | case |
| 5 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rubies | cc |
| 7 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 diamonds | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 treasure | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treasure | the King | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a ship full of pearls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ship | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pearls | case |
| 5 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a cart of silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coins | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coins | compound |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cart | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a boat full of diamonds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boat | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 diamonds | case |
| 5 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
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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