Test 5 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…
Yo, how many brothers were in that ship business?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many brothers · What happens: be · To what, where: ship business
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 10 business | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brothers | amod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 business | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 business | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 business | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 business | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 business | compound |
| 10 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 business | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | many brothers | that ship business | tree rules |
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
Three brothers, all trying the same thing for the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 brothers | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trying | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | all | the same thing | for the princess | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for princess=Attribute |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Three brothers, all after the same princess and her gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 princess | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 princess | amod |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brothers | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gold | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gold | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three brothers, all trying the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | Three brothers | the same | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
Option 4
Four brothers, all after the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 same | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 same | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brothers | acl:relcl |
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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