Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daug…
Mate, what did the King reckon he'd hand over to whichever daughter loved him best?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, daughter · What happens: hand over, love · To what, where: Mate, him
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 hand | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reckon | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | compound |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | aux |
| 10 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 hand | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 loved | mark |
| 13 | whichever | whichever | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 loved | advmod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loved | obj |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 loved | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand over | would · past · do-support | he | Mate | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | past | daughter | him = he | best obl; whichever property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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 · ✓ the right answer
his whole kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kingdom | amod |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
his whole empire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 empire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 empire | amod |
| 3 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his big old kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kingdom | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kingdom | amod |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the whole kingdom, castle, and all his gold mines, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kingdom | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kingdom | amod |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 castle | punct |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kingdom | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mines | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mines | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 mines | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mines | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mines | compound |
| 11 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kingdom | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mate | punct |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mines | conj |
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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