Test 6 · ★ · Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled…
Did the queen bee say she'd pay Ferko back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: queen bee, bee · What happens: say, pay back · To what, where: Ferko · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1693 «Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled Ferko heals himself and wins the King's test» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bee | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bee | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bee | compound |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pay | aux |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 pay | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the queen bee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay back | would | bee | Ferko | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ferko=Asset |
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
yeah, she said she'd reward him one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reward | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reward | aux |
| 7 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reward | obj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reward | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reward | would | she | him = he | day | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 2
yeah, she said she'd reward him one day with a palace of her own
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reward | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reward | aux |
| 7 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reward | obj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reward | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reward | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 own | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palace | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reward | would | she | him = he | day | with a palace of her own | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with palace=Theme |
Option 3
nah, she said she'd never repay him but would send gifts to his brothers
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 repay | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 repay | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 repay | advmod |
| 8 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 repay | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 send | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 send | aux |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 repay | conj |
| 13 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 send | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 brothers | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 send | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not repay | would | she | him = he | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | send | would | she not said here | gifts | his brothers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to brother=Destination |
Option 4
yeah, she said she'd pay him in honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pay | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pay | aux |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pay | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 honey | case |
| 10 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay | would | she | him = he | honey | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
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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