Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus t…
What's the prince's name, and is he a total legend at adventures?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: name, total legend, adventures
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1730 «Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus tries to drown Little Klaus and drowns the old driver by mistake, then a prince finds a gold ring in a barrel» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 name | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 legend | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 legend | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 legend | cop |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 legend | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 legend | det |
| 12 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 legend | amod |
| 13 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 adventures | case |
| 15 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 legend | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the prince's name and a total legend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | he | a total legend | adventures | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Ring, he's a proper adventurer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 adventurer | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 adventurer | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 adventurer | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adventurer | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 adventurer | amod |
| 7 | adventurer | adventurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ring | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a proper adventurer | tree rules |
Option 2
Ring, and he loves a good quest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loves | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 loves | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 quest | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quest | amod |
| 8 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Ring | a good quest | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quest=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Ring, and he's not big on adventures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 big | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 big | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 big | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 big | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 big | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ring | amod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 adventures | case |
| 9 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 big | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | he | adventures | big property | tree rules |
Option 4
Ring, legend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 legend | punct |
| 3 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ring | conj |
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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