Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self…
Ayy, who did the Swineherd say he despised?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ayy, Swineherd · What happens: do, say, despise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» 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 | Ayy | Ayy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Swineherd | det |
| 6 | Swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 despised | nsubj |
| 9 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 say | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ayy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Swineherd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | despise | participle | Swineherd | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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
Himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the Princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the Lady
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lady | det |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | 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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