Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a cle…
Lol, did the kotwal believe the fakir's ghoul story straight away?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kotwal · What happens: do, believe · To what, where: ghoul story
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1854 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a clever trick, a cruel princess punished, and a happy ending» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kotwal | det |
| 5 | kotwal | kotwal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fakir | det |
| 8 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 fakir | case |
| 10 | ghoul | ghoul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | compound |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | obj |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 believe | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | believe | present | the kotwal | the fakir's ghoul story | away property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=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
Nah, he locked the fakir up in the cage for a whole week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 locked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | nsubj |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fakir | det |
| 6 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 locked | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cage | det |
| 10 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 week | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 week | amod |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | past | he | the fakir | the cage | week | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fakir=Patient |
Option 2
Nah, he asked for proof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 asked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 proof | case |
| 6 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | he | for proof | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he believed every word and ordered the prince killed at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 believed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believed | nsubj |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | nsubj |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 killed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | he | every word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | order | past | he not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill | past | the prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he went to the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1854-pg7128-part38/t4/