Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…
Wait, the plums gave him HORNS? That's well wicked, bro!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, plums, That · What happens: wait, give, be · To what, where: HORNS, him
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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
Sentence 1: Wait, the plums gave him HORNS?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plums | det |
| 4 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | HORNS | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the plums | HORNS | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horn=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: That's well wicked, bro!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wicked | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wicked | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 wicked | advmod |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bro | punct |
| 6 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wicked | vocative |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | bro vocative; well, wicked property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yellow ones gave horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ones | amod |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | yellow ones | horns | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme |
Option 2
yellow ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ones | amod |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
green ones gave horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ones | amod |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | green ones | horns | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme |
Option 4
the yellow ones gave him horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ones | det |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | amod |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the yellow ones | horns | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horn=Theme |
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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