Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

Dead quick one, which nag did the prince pick?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dead quick one · What happens: nag, do · To what, where: prince pick

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nag	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 nag	nsubj
6	nag	nag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pick	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pick	compound
10	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nag	present	Dead quick one						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	Dead quick one	the prince pick					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pick=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

the proud white horse standing at the front of the whole stable yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 horse	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 front	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 front	det
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 yard	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yard	amod
12	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yard	amod
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	the proud white horse not said here			the front of the whole stable yard			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at front=Location

Option 2

the sleek black one that looked strongest of all in the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
2	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strongest	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	acl:relcl
7	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 strongest	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 stable	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stable	det
12	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strongest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the sleek black one						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the half-starved one in the corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 starved	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 half	punct
4	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	participle							tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the shaggy mare by the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mare	det
2	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mare	amod
3	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mare	nmod

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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