Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part…

Dude, did the apprentice's secret really end up in a flute?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: secret, flute

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1759 «Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 apprentice	det
5	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secret	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 apprentice	case
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 end	advmod
9	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 end	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 flute	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flute	det
13	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the apprentice's secret					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Eventuality
2	end up	present						in a flute result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flute=Result

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 right answer

Yep, the flute kept singing the goat ears line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flute	det
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ears	compound
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 line	compound
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the flute						tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the flute not said here	the ears line					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location line=Theme

Option 2

Nope, the flute played a lullaby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flute	det
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lullaby	det
7	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the flute	a lullaby					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lullaby=Theme

Option 3

Yep, the flute kept singing the goat ears line over and over at court

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flute	det
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ears	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ears	compound
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 line	nsubj
10	line	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 singing	ccomp
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 line	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 over	cc
13	over	over	ADV	_	11 over	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 court	case
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 line	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the flute			tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the flute not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	line	present	the goat ears	court	over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yep, the chamberlain sang it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chamberlain	det
4	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the chamberlain	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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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