Test 11 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the p…
Dead serious, what did the king make the prince in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dead serious · What happens: do, make · To what, where: king, prince, end
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 serious | amod |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 serious | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Dead serious | the prince | in the end | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prince=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
Commander of the army
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commander | Commander | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 army | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 army | det |
| 4 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Commander | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His successor to the throne
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 successor | nmod:poss |
| 2 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 throne | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 successor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His successor to the throne and the royal seal
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 successor | nmod:poss |
| 2 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 throne | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 successor | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seal | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seal | det |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seal | amod |
| 9 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 successor | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Heir to the whole kingdom and its treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kingdom | amod |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Heir | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 treasury | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 8 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Heir | 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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