Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…
Wait, what's the new tale about, the one from Iceland?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: new tale
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tale | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 tale | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tale | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tale | amod |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 about | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tale | appos |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Iceland | case |
| 13 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the new tale | 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
A king's son and a clever foster lad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lad | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lad | det |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lad | amod |
| 8 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lad | compound |
| 9 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A queen's son and a brave foster child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 queen | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 child | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 8 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 child | compound |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A king's daughter and a clever foster son, whose story the fishermen told each winter
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 8 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | compound |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 story | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | appos |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fishermen | det |
| 14 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 winter | det |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a king's daughter and a clever foster son | each winter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A king's daughter and a clever foster son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 8 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | compound |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | 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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