Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…
Was the prince gutted when the king said cut the trunk?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, gut, say, cut · To what, where: prince, trunk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prince | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gutted | csubj |
| 4 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trunk | det |
| 11 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cut | infinitive | the trunk | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trunk=Product |
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, he feared the king's rage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 feared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feared | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feared | nsubj |
| 4 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | he | the king's rage | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rage=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rage | the king | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he thought he would die
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | would | he | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
yeah, he thought he would die right there in the court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 die | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 die | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | would | he | there | in the court | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in court=Attribute |
Option 4
yeah, he thought he would die and cried for his mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mum | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | would | he | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | he not said here | for his mum | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mum=Recipient |
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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