Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…
Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard? Gutted for the Princess!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: sell, gut · To what, where: plums, fake beard
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 sold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 sold | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sold | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 beard | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beard | det |
| 9 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beard | amod |
| 10 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | he | plums | a fake beard | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=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: Gutted for the Princess!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gutted | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | for the Princess | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
at the church door in the village square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 square | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 square | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 square | compound |
| 8 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by the river bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 bank | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bank | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bank | compound |
| 4 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
at the church door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
sitting at the church door all day long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | compound |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sitting | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 sitting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the church door | day | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=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.
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