Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…
Wait, what kind of king is the rat supposed to be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, kind · What happens: wait, be, suppose · To what, where: rat
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rat | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rat | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rat | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rat | det |
| 9 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 10 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rat | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 be | mark |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 supposed | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | what kind of king | the rat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suppose | participle | the rat not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «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
A rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rat | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Rat-lord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A king of snakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 snakes | case |
| 4 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 king | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A king of rats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rats | case |
| 4 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 king | 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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