Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…
fr, what did the future Buddha want to fix in the king?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do, want, fix · To what, where: future
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1835 «Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, part 19: the cat wins back the ring, and the Brahman's wife sets out for the king» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | 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 | 1 fr | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 future | det |
| 6 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 future | appos |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fix | mark |
| 10 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fix | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | the future | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want | present | fr | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | fr not said here | in the king | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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
his anger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 anger | nmod:poss |
| 2 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anger | his = he | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
his bad temper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 temper | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 temper | amod |
| 3 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | temper | his = he | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
his refusal to ever listen to advice from anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 refusal | nmod:poss |
| 2 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 listen | advmod |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 anyone | case |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 listen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | to-infinitive | his refusal | anyone | ever | to advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme | ||
| 2 | refuse | his = he | nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his talkativeness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 talkativeness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | talkativeness | talkativeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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