Test 4 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…
Cola-Mattheo was a total numpty, right? What was he called in the story?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cola · What happens: be, call · To what, where: total numpty, Cola, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the 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: Cola-Mattheo was a total numpty, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cola | Cola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 numpty | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mattheo | punct |
| 3 | Mattheo | Mattheo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cola | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 numpty | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 numpty | det |
| 6 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 numpty | amod |
| 7 | numpty | numpty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 numpty | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 numpty | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 numpty | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cola | a total numpty | tree rules |
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: What was he called in the story?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Cola | the story | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1
a dreamer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dreamer | det |
| 2 | dreamer | dreamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a simpleton
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 simpleton | det |
| 2 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a rude, lazy lad who never listened to his mother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lad | det |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lad | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rude | punct |
| 4 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lad | amod |
| 5 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 listened | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 listened | advmod |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lad | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | past | a rude lazy lad | to his mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mother=Theme |
Option 4
a fool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fool | det |
| 2 | fool | fool | 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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