Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part…
Did the vizier's son get his mate out of that tower sharpish?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get · To what, where: son, mate, tower sharpish
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1852 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part 36: the prince falls for a fairy's reflection, and the friends escape the robbers» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizier | det |
| 3 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 vizier | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Did | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sharpish | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sharpish | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 sharpish | det |
| 12 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sharpish | compound |
| 13 | sharpish | sharpish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the vizier's son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | his mate | that tower sharpish | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he did a runner with the horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 runner | det |
| 6 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 horses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horses | det |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | a runner | with the horses | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he waited until dawn, then rode off on the horses with the bags while the robbers slept
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 waited | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 dawn | case |
| 6 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 rode | advmod |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 rode | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horses | det |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rode | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bags | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bags | det |
| 16 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rode | obl |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 slept | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 robbers | det |
| 19 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slept | nsubj |
| 20 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | he | dawn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride off | past | he not said here | then | on the horses; with the bags | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | sleep | past | the robbers | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, he sneaked out with the gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sneaked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneaked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sneaked | nsubj |
| 4 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sneaked | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sneaked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak out | past | he | with the gold | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, he did a runner with the horses and the bags of muhrs before the robbers woke up
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 runner | det |
| 6 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 horses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horses | det |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bags | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bags | det |
| 12 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 horses | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 muhrs | case |
| 14 | muhrs | muhr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bags | nmod |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 woke | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 robbers | det |
| 17 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 woke | nsubj |
| 18 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 woke | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | a runner | with the horses and the bags of muhrs | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | wake up | past | the robbers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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