Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…
Did the King really say I'm powerless in comparison? That's a flex!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, That · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: King, comparison, flex · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks 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
Sentence 1: Did the King really say I'm powerless in comparison?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 powerless | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 powerless | cop |
| 8 | powerless | powerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 comparison | case |
| 10 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 powerless | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | I | comparison | powerless property | 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.
Sentence 2: That's a flex!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 flex | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flex | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flex | det |
| 4 | flex | flex | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 flex | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a flex | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he said it to himself
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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | it | himself = he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to himself=Recipient |
Option 2
Nah, he whispered to the Queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 whispered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whispered | nsubj |
| 4 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | he | the Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient |
Option 3
Yeah, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, to the Simpleton
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 Simpleton | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Simpleton | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Simpleton | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Simpleton | det |
| 5 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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