Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov…
Bruv, why did the three princes start a fight with swords?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: three princes · What happens: start · To what, where: fight
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 start | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 start | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 start | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princes | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 princes | nummod |
| 7 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 start | nsubj |
| 8 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 start | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 swords | case |
| 12 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 start | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 start | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · do-support | the three princes | a fight | with swords; Bruv vocative | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality with sword=Subeventuality |
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
Proper jealous over Parsley, plus one of them had lost a bet, innit
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 jealous | advmod |
| 2 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 Parsley | case |
| 4 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jealous | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lost | punct |
| 6 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 lost | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jealous | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bet | det |
| 13 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 innit | punct |
| 15 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bet | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect · passive | one of them | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They were jealous, dead jealous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jealous | cop |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jealous | conj |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jealous | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | They not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | They not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
They were mad about the throne, honestly, the whole kingdom was at stake
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mad | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mad | cop |
| 3 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 throne | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 throne | det |
| 6 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mad | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 honestly | punct |
| 8 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 3 mad | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stake | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kingdom | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kingdom | amod |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stake | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stake | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 stake | case |
| 15 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mad | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | about the throne; honestly, mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the whole kingdom | stake | tree rules |
Option 4
They wanted the same girl, dude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dude | punct |
| 7 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | They | the same girl and dude | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme |
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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