Test 2 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…
Wait, was the guy really gonna chop the princess up?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, guy · What happens: wait, be, chop up · To what, where: guy, princess
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guy | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guy | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guy | det |
| 5 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 chop | advmod |
| 7 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 chop | dep |
| 8 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chop | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 chop | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the guy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | chop up | infinitive | the guy not said here | the princess | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
he was ready to, to keep his word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ready | cop |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | he not said here | his word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | his = he | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
nah, he just wanted to scare her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 scare | mark |
| 7 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scare | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | scare not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | her = she | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he stopped because the princess begged him to stay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stopped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 begged | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | nsubj |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 begged | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 begged | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | he | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the princess | him = he | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
yeah, he was ready to do it right then in the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 ready | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 then | advmod |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 do | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | he not said here | it | the hall | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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