Test 6 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…
So the King made the snake do mad stuff, yeah? What did it have to turn the palace walls into?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, stuff · What happens: make, do, have, turn · To what, where: snake, mad stuff, palace walls
This is test 6 · ★ 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: So the King made the snake do mad stuff, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stuff | amod |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 made | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the King | the snake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Product | ||||
| 2 | do | present | the King not said here | mad stuff | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Eventuality |
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 did it have to turn the palace walls into?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 have | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 turn | mark |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walls | compound |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turn | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 turn | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · do-support | stuff | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | stuff not said here | the palace walls | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
ivory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
tin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
marble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marble | marble | 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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