Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…
ngl the chalk crosses were sus, right? who did that?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chalk crosses, ngl · What happens: be, do · To what, where: ngl, that
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crosses | det |
| 3 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crosses | compound |
| 4 | crosses | cross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sus | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sus | cop |
| 6 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 ngl | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| 8 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 11 did | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 did | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chalk crosses | ngl not said here | suspect property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | ngl | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the dog, to mess up the lady
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mess | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mess | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 mess | mark |
| 5 | mess | mess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 mess | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mess | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mess up | to-infinitive | the dog | the lady | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the King, to trick the lady
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 trick | mark |
| 5 | trick | trick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trick | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | to-infinitive | the King | the lady | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient |
Option 3
the lady, to mark her way
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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mark | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 mark | mark |
| 5 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lady | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mark | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | to-infinitive | her way | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination |
Option 4
the Soldier, to confuse the guards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confuse | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 confuse | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 confuse | mark |
| 5 | confuse | confuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guards | det |
| 7 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confuse | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | to-infinitive | the Soldier | the guards | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient |
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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