Test 8 · ★ · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

what did the old man say the prince was, like, the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man, prince · What happens: say, be · To what, where: whole time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1764 «fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: the prince is set a hay task and tricks a horse and a cow» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 time	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 time	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	15 time	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the old man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is a	past	the prince	the whole time					tree rules

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 dog of a servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 servant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	nmod

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

Option 2

A lazy boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A stupid servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A cursed prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prince	det
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 prince	amod
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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