Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…
Hadvor's the king's only kid, so she's what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hadvor · What happens: be · To what, where: kid
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kid | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kid | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kid | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kid | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 kid | advmod |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 what | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 what | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 kid | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 kid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hadvor | kid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Hadvor | 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
The heir to the kingdom, though the Court and her foster brother both doubted it greatly
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heir | det |
| 2 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 doubted | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heir | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Court | punct |
| 7 | though | though | ADP | _ | 9 Court | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Court | det |
| 9 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heir | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brother | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | compound |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Court | conj |
| 14 | both | both | ADV | _ | 15 doubted | advmod |
| 15 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 doubted | obj |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 15 doubted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | past | the heir to the kingdom though the Court and heir's foster brother | kingdom | both, greatly property | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The heir to the kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heir | det |
| 2 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heir | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The heir to the kingdom, as the old king had declared before the whole assembly
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heir | det |
| 2 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heir | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 declared | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 declared | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declared | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 declared | aux |
| 12 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 heir | acl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 assembly | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 assembly | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 assembly | amod |
| 16 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past · perfect | the old king | the heir to the kingdom not said here | before the whole assembly | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Attribute |
Option 4
The heir to the throne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heir | det |
| 2 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 throne | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heir | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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