Test 11 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…
bro what was the dragon paying stan for three days' work?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, dragon, three days · What happens: be, pay, work · To what, where: dragon, stan
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragon | nsubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 dragon | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragon | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 dragon | acl |
| 7 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 paying | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 days | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paying | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bro | the dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | the dragon not said here | stan | for three days's work | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stan=Asset for work=Theme | |||
| 3 | work | three days | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
seven silver coins a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 coins | nummod |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | compound |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
seven sacks of ducats a day, plus his own bed, a horse and a warm meal
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sacks | nummod |
| 2 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ducats | case |
| 4 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sacks | nmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ducats | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bed | punct |
| 8 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 bed | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bed | amod |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sacks | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bed | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 meal | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 meal | det |
| 17 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meal | amod |
| 18 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sacks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
seven sacks of ducats a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sacks | nummod |
| 2 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ducats | case |
| 4 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sacks | nmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sacks | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nine sacks of grain a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sacks | nummod |
| 2 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 grain | case |
| 4 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sacks | nmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sacks | nmod:unmarked |
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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