Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…
Wait, what did the old men say the Dragon was doing?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old men, Dragon · What happens: wait, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dragon | det |
| 10 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 doing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 doing | aux |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 say | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the old men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | the Dragon | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Napping, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Napping | nap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Napping | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nap | gerund | bro | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Starting his sleep year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 year | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 year | compound |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Waking up for winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Waking | compound:prt |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 winter | case |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | gerund | winter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Starting a long nap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nap | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nap | amod |
| 4 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | a long nap | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1721-pg640-part45/t3/