Test 8 · ★ · Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the pri…
Dead good, what did the King promise her if she healed his son?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, she · What happens: promise, heal · To what, where: her, son
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Dead | dead | ADV | _ | 2 good | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promise | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 promise | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 promise | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 promise | nsubj |
| 8 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 good | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 promise | iobj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 healed | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 healed | nsubj |
| 12 | healed | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 promise | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 healed | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · do-support | the King | her = she | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heal a condition, not said to happen | past | she | King's son | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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
his son in marriage
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 | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 marriage | case |
| 4 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
half of the kingdom and the Prince's hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 half | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hand | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 half | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Prince as her husband
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 husband | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his castle and lands
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 | 2 castle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lands | cc |
| 4 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 castle | 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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