Test 12 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor her…
lol the herd-boy was such a legend
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: herd boy · What happens: be · To what, where: legend
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1695 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor herd-boy helps a wounded giant, gets a magic loaf and an invisible belt, and wins his master's daughter» 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 9 legend | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 3 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 herd | punct |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 legend | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 legend | cop |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 legend | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 legend | det |
| 9 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the herd boy | such legend | 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 · ✓ the right answer
fr, he was super kind to the giant and got rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 6 kind | advmod |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 giant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | conj |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fr | to the giant; kind, super property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | fr not said here | rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah he was brave but kinda reckless tbh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 brave | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brave | cop |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 reckless | cc |
| 6 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 7 reckless | advmod |
| 7 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brave | conj |
| 8 | tbh | tbh | ADV | _ | 4 brave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | brave, tbh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | kinda property | tree rules |
Option 3
nah he was kinda sneaky and selfish tbh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sneaky | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sneaky | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sneaky | cop |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 sneaky | advmod |
| 5 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 selfish | cc |
| 7 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sneaky | conj |
| 8 | tbh | tbh | ADV | _ | 5 sneaky | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | kinda, sneaky, tbh property | tree rules |
Option 4
lol he was lucky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 lucky | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lucky | cop |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | lucky property | 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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