Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns th…
Mate, what did the aunts reckon happened to Balna?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, aunts · What happens: do, reckon, happen · To what, where: Balna
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1823 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns the Magician's secret and sets out for the parrot» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 aunts | det |
| 6 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reckon | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Balna | case |
| 10 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the aunts | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | happen | participle | the aunts not said here | Balna | vn occur-48.3-1 «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
The old Fakir took her away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fakir | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fakir | amod |
| 3 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | the old Fakir | her = she | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Fakir and the black dog got her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fakir | det |
| 2 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dog | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fakir | conj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Fakir and the black dog | dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 3
The Malee and the black cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Malee | det |
| 2 | Malee | Malee | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cat | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cat | amod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Malee | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The neighbours' goat and a black hound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 neighbours | det |
| 2 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 goat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 neighbours | case |
| 4 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hound | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hound | det |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hound | amod |
| 8 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goat | conj |
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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