Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…
test: the snake was a prince, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: be · To what, where: prince
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» 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 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 prince | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prince | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prince | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 test | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 test | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 test | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 test | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the snake | a prince | tree rules |
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, son of Raja Indrasha, cursed to be a snake for ages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 son | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Raja | case |
| 5 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 6 | Indrasha | Indrasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Raja | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cursed | punct |
| 8 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 son | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 snake | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 snake | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 snake | det |
| 12 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cursed | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 ages | case |
| 14 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 snake | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | son of Raja not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a snake | for ages | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, son of some raja
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 son | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 raja | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 raja | det |
| 6 | raja | raja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, a prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 prince | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, son of Raja Indrasha
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 son | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Raja | case |
| 5 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 6 | Indrasha | Indrasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Raja | flat |
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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