Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…
dude, what was the notice in the big town saying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be, say · To what, where: notice, big town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 notice | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 notice | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 notice | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 notice | det |
| 6 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dude | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 notice | nmod |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | dude | the notice | the big town | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | dude | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
find the princess in eight days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 find | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 find | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | the princess | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
Option 2
come back Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 come | advmod |
| 3 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 come | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | imperative | you not said here | friday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
pay a fee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fee | det |
| 3 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | imperative | you not said here | a fee | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset |
Option 4
find the king's son in a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 find | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 find | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | the king's son | week | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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