Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…
How long was the king off on his trip, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, innit, trip · To what, where: king, trip
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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 | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 king | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 king | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 trip | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trip | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king | king's trip | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | trip | king | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=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
A whole year, like he said, which felt far too long for everyone waiting
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 | 3 year | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 long | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 waiting | case |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 waiting | compound |
| 16 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | for everyone waiting; long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for waiting=Theme |
Option 2
A few months, as he said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 months | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a few months | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A whole year, like he said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | 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 | say speech: assert | past | he | year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A whole year, like he said, travelling across many lands and seas to find his cure
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 year | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 travelling | punct |
| 9 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 lands | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lands | amod |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 travelling | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seas | cc |
| 14 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lands | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 travelling | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cure | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | a whole year not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent year=Topic | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | he not said here | many lands and seas | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across land=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | he not said here | his cure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Topic |
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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