Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…
Oi, what did the King tell Cinderlad he'd have to put up with?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: tell, have, put up · To what, where: Cinderlad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 7 tell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 tell | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 put | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the King | Cinderlad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | would | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put up | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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
Hard work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 work | amod |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Working late if he slipped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 slipped | advcl |
| 2 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Working | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 slipped | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | gerund | he not said here | late property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | he | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Being flayed if he failed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 flayed | aux:pass |
| 2 | flayed | flay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 failed | parataxis |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 failed | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 failed | nsubj |
| 5 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flay | gerund · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fail | past | he | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Being beaten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 beaten | aux:pass |
| 2 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | gerund · passive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
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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