Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in…
Oi mate, did the king actually lose his sword or what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi mate · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: king, sword
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1660 «Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in the forest and made to carry a bundle» 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 | X | _ | 2 mate | compound |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mate | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 lose | advmod |
| 8 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lose | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sword | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Oi mate | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | Oi mate not said here | mate's sword | actually property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Eventuality |
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
Nah, he dropped it by the well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | it | by the well | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by well=Destination |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, the fairy nicked it and his horse too while he was having a kip
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nicked | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairy | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | nsubj |
| 5 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nicked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horse | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 it | conj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 nicked | advmod |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 having | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 having | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 having | aux |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 nicked | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kip | det |
| 16 | kip | kip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | the fairy | it | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past · progressive | fairy | a kip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kip=Patient |
Option 3
Yeah, the thief nicked it while he ate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nicked | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thief | det |
| 4 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | nsubj |
| 5 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nicked | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 ate | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ate | nsubj |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nicked | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | the thief | it | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | thief | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the fairy nicked it while he kipped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nicked | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairy | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | nsubj |
| 5 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nicked | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 kipped | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kipped | nsubj |
| 9 | kipped | kip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nicked | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | the fairy | it | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kip | past | fairy | tree rules |
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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