Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with l…
Oi, who was the lad who finally got up that Glass Mountain, like, in the end?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, lad · What happens: be, get up · To what, where: lad, end
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1704 «Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess» 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lad | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lad | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lad | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lad | acl:relcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 got | compound:prt |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 Mountain | mark |
| 12 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mountain | compound |
| 13 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 got | vocative |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 15 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 9 got | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 end | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 lad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Oi | the lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | the lad | in the end | Glass Mountain vocative; finally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
A schoolboy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 schoolboy | det |
| 2 | schoolboy | schoolboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A swallow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 swallow | det |
| 2 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The youngest son of a merchant who had heard about the Princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 merchant | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | a merchant | about the Princess | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about princess=Stimulus |
Option 4
A poor boy from a small village at the edge of the kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 village | amod |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 village | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | 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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