Test 6 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…
Gutted for the dragon, but what made him fall off?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: gut, make, fall off · To what, where: dragon
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gutted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gutted | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 fall | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | for the dragon | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | past | dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall off | infinitive | dragon not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
a magic arrow hitting his horse, which then rears and plunges wildly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 arrow | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arrow | amod |
| 3 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rears | nsubj |
| 4 | hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 arrow | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hitting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rears | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 rears | nsubj |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 rears | advmod |
| 10 | rears | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plunges | cc |
| 12 | plunges | plunge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rears | conj |
| 13 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 10 rears | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | gerund | a magic arrow not said here | arrow's horse | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horse=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | rear | present | a magic arrow | then | wildly property | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
his horse bucking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bucking | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bucking | compound |
| 3 | bucking | bucking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the sword of the prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his horse rearing and plunging
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rearing | nsubj |
| 3 | rearing | rear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 plunging | cc |
| 5 | plunging | plunge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rearing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | gerund | his horse | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | plunge | gerund | his horse not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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