Test 5 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's…
Hold up, the king just chopped the duck's beak? That's harsh, man.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king, That · What happens: hold up, chop, be · To what, where: beak
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» 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
Sentence 1: Hold up, the king just chopped the duck's beak?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Hold | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chopped | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chopped | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 chopped | advmod |
| 7 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 duck | det |
| 9 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beak | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 duck | case |
| 11 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chopped | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | imperative | you not said here | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | chop | past | the king | the duck's beak | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=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.
Sentence 2: That's harsh, man.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 harsh | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 harsh | cop |
| 3 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 harsh | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 harsh | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | harsh property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, the top of the head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 top | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 top | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, the tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 tail | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tail | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, it was his feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 feathers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feathers | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feathers | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | his feathers | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the point of the beak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 point | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 point | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 point | det |
| 4 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beak | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beak | det |
| 7 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 point | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | the beak | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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