Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…
Wicked, what instrument did the queen take on her travels?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wicked instrument, queen · What happens: instrument, do, take, travel
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 instrument | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 instrument | nsubj |
| 4 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 travels | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 travels | nmod:poss |
| 11 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instrument | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | do | past | Wicked instrument | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | present | the queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | travel | present | the queen not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
a lute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lute | det |
| 2 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a fiddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fiddle | det |
| 2 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a golden harp from her father's hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 harp | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 harp | amod |
| 3 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 harp | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a flute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flute | det |
| 2 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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