Test 1 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…
Oi, mate, was the Prince's boat just knackered on some rocks, or what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be, knacker · To what, where: boat, rocks
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1697 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the Prince is wrecked and finds a land of doomed lovers» 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 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knackered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oi | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boat | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 boat | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 boat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oi | conj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 knackered | advmod |
| 11 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 rocks | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 rocks | det |
| 14 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knackered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 what | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 what | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 knackered | parataxis |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 knackered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Oi and the Prince's boat not said here | the Prince's boat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knacker | past | Oi and the Prince's boat | some rocks | 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
Lost at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | sea | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at sea=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Crushed by a giant wave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 wave | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wave | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wave | amod |
| 5 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crushed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | participle | by a giant wave | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Wrecked on the hidden reef
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 reef | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reef | det |
| 4 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reef | amod |
| 5 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wrecked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | participle | the hidden reef | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Smashed to bits on rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 bits | case |
| 3 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Smashed | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rocks | case |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Smashed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | participle | rocks | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to bit=Result |
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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