Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…
ngl, the nightingale's answer to who taught him the song is well random
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: answer, ngl, nightingale · What happens: teach, be, answer · To what, where: song, ngl
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 random | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answer | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nightingale | det |
| 4 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 nightingale | case |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ngl | appos |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 who | case |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 taught | nsubj |
| 9 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answer | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taught | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 song | det |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taught | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 random | cop |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 random | advmod |
| 15 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | the nightingale's answer | the song | ngl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient song=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | ngl | random, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer | the nightingale | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
a frog from the brook, obviously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 brook | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brook | det |
| 5 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 frog | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 frog | punct |
| 7 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 2 frog | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nobody, he just made it up on the spot one evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 made | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nobody | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 evening | nummod |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | he | it | the spot | evening | nobody vocative | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot |
Option 3
Hope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Love
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love | love | 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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