Test 11 · ★ · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…
Real talk, what do the brothers say the palace is missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, palace · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Real talk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1673 «Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and a royal job» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brothers | det |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 talk | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 missing | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 missing | cop |
| 12 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 say | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | the brothers | Real talk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the palace | missing property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
A sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The crown of the old king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crown | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the old king | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
The gold of the treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 treasury | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 treasury | det |
| 5 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The sword of the Man-eater
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eater | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eater | det |
| 5 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eater | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Man | punct |
| 7 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | nmod |
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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