Test 7 · ★ · Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the pri…
Mental, what did the fox say the blood needed to work?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, blood · What happens: do, say, need, work · To what, where: blood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» 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 | Mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mental | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blood | det |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obj |
| 10 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 blood | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 needed | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the fox | the blood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blood=Topic | ||||
| 3 | need | participle | the blood not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | work not said to happen | to-infinitive | the blood not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ← Mova's choice
the blood of a living animal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 blood | det |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 animal | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 5 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animal | amod |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blood | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his own sweat
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 sweat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sweat | amod |
| 3 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a large cup of the Prince's blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cup | amod |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 blood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 blood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cup | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
some of his own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 own | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 own | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 some | nmod |
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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