Test 11 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…
Did the emperor catch on to the trick straight away?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: catch on
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 emperor | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 catch | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 trick | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trick | det |
| 8 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 catch | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch on | present | the emperor | to the trick; away property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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
Yeah, straight off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 off | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 off | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nope, not till later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 later | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 later | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 5 later | case |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he saw it straight away at the start
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 start | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 start | det |
| 10 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | it | the start | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nope, not till after the whole betrothal was over, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 10 over | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 till | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | ADV | _ | 10 over | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 over | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 betrothal | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 betrothal | amod |
| 8 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 over | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 over | cop |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 over | punct |
| 12 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 10 over | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole betrothal | over, till property | tree rules |
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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