Test 9 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart…
Oi, who was Mousta, the bloke who met him on the road?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, bloke · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: Mousta, road
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice Palace» 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 | Oi | Oi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mousta | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 Mousta | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mousta | cop |
| 5 | Mousta | Mousta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oi | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bloke | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bloke | det |
| 8 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oi | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bloke | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Oi | Mousta | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the bloke | Mousta | the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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 faithful messenger from the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 messenger | amod |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 messenger | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A faithful messenger who had waited on the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 messenger | amod |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | aux |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 messenger | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waited | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · perfect | a faithful messenger | the road | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Location |
Option 3
A trusted guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guard | det |
| 2 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 guard | amod |
| 3 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A faithful messenger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 messenger | amod |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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