Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…
So what does the King need, like if you want the other daughter back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, want · To what, where: King need, other daughter
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 does | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 need | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 need | compound |
| 6 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 want | case |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 want | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 want | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 want | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the King need | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the other daughter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daughter=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 · ← Mova's choice
A rope five hundred ells long, five hundred men, and a big gold ship
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ells | nummod |
| 5 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 long | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rope | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 men | punct |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | compound |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rope | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ship | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ship | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ship | amod |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ship | compound |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rope | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A rope of four hundred ells and men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ells | case |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ells | nummod |
| 6 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rope | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 men | cc |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ells | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A rope five hundred ells long and five hundred men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ells | nummod |
| 5 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 long | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rope | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 men | cc |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | compound |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rope | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A chain of three hundred ells and men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chain | det |
| 2 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ells | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ells | nummod |
| 6 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chain | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 men | cc |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ells | conj |
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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