Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part…

Fr fr, what did the voice in the cask beg for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr fr · What happens: do · To what, where: voice, cask beg

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fr	compound
2	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voice	det
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 beg	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beg	det
10	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beg	compound
11	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	11 beg	case
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Fr fr	the voice		the cask beg			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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 · ← Mova's choice

Water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Freedom, it was tired of waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Freedom	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 waiting	mark
7	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Freedom					tired property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund	Freedom not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some water, it was dying of thirst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dying	aux
6	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 thirst	case
8	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	some water					of thirst	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer

Option 4

Wine, it was dying of hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dying	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wine	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dying	aux
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 hunger	case
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	Wine					of hunger; Wine vocative	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/t10/