Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is…
Real talk, what did the poor Prince ask for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor Prince · What happens: ask · To what, where: Real talk
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1733 «Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is refused by the Princess and becomes a swineherd» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 ask | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Prince | amod |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 talk | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ask | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | the poor Prince | Real talk | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
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
a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a job at the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 job | det |
| 2 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 job | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a bed for the night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bed | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1733-pg640-part57/t9/