Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part…
Wait, what did the youngest prince see in the apple tree?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, youngest prince · What happens: wait, see · To what, where: apple tree
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 see | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 prince | amod |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | 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 | see | past · do-support | the youngest prince | the apple tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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
Seven silver swans landing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 swans | nummod |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swans | amod |
| 3 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 landing | compound |
| 4 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twelve red birds perching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 birds | nummod |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | perching | perch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 birds | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | gerund | Twelve red birds not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nine golden pea-hens flying in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hens | nummod |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hens | amod |
| 3 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hens | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pea | punct |
| 5 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hens | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 flying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in | gerund | Nine golden pea hens not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Two golden birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 birds | nummod |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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