Test 6 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from…
Ngl, what were the kids holding when they charged?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, kids · What happens: be, hold, charge · To what, where: kids
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1771 «Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred children» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kids | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 kids | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kids | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kids | det |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ngl | appos |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kids | acl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 charged | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 charged | nsubj |
| 10 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 holding | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ngl | the kids | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the kids not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | charge | past | kids = kid | vn run-51.3.2 «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
Sticks and stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stones | cc |
| 3 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sticks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Knives in the right hand, forks in the left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 forks | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knives | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forks | punct |
| 7 | forks | fork | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 left | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 left | det |
| 10 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fork | present | Knives in the right hand | the left | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in left=Destination |
Option 3
Sticks in the right, spoons in the left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 right | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 right | det |
| 4 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sticks | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoons | punct |
| 6 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 right | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 left | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 left | det |
| 9 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoons | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Axes in the right, clubs in the left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 right | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 right | det |
| 4 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Axes | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clubs | punct |
| 6 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 right | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 left | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 left | det |
| 9 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clubs | nmod |
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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