Test 1 · ★ · pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals t…
Bro, did the princess really trick those three slaves with fake slippers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, princess · What happens: do, trick · To what, where: princess, three slaves
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1808 «pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals the emperor's stud of mares» 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 trick | advmod |
| 7 | trick | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 princess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 slaves | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 slaves | nummod |
| 10 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trick | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 slippers | case |
| 12 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slippers | amod |
| 13 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slaves | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bro | the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | trick | present | the princess not said here | that three slaves | with fake slippers | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Patient |
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
Yeah, she said she was a lost merchant and sold them all fake slippers
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 merchant | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 merchant | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 merchant | amod |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sold | cc |
| 11 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sold | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 slippers | det |
| 14 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slippers | amod |
| 15 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sold | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | she | a lost merchant | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sell | past | she not said here | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient slipper=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she said she was a lost merchant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 merchant | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 merchant | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 merchant | amod |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | she | a lost merchant | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, she claimed to be a trader
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 claimed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 claimed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 claimed | nsubj |
| 4 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 trader | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trader | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 trader | det |
| 8 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claimed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | she not said here | a trader | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, she pretended to be a runaway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 pretended | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretended | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pretended | nsubj |
| 4 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 runaway | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 runaway | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 runaway | det |
| 8 | runaway | runaway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pretended | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | she not said here | a runaway | 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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