Test 8 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa…
Hang on, what did the councillors shout when he got back to the palace?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, councillors, he · What happens: hang on, shout, get back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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 | Hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Hang | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shout | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 shout | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shout | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 councillors | det |
| 7 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shout | nsubj |
| 8 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hang | advcl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shout | ccomp |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang on | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past · do-support | the councillors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get back | past | he | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
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
Let her be your wife and our queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 queen | cc |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 queen | nmod:poss |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | infinitive | your wife and our queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Long live the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 live | advmod |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | imperative | you not said here | the king | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
Option 3
Welcome home, our prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 home | amod |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 prince | nmod:poss |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 home | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Let her be your wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | infinitive | your wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/t8/