Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov…
What did the King say he wanted, like a boss?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: do, say, want · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boss | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 boss | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boss | det |
| 11 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | past | King | like a boss | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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 sons to fight for it
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 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fight | mark |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fight | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | to-infinitive | His sons | for it | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
One son to rule and be heir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 son | nummod |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 rule | mark |
| 4 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 son | acl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heir | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heir | cop |
| 7 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rule | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | to-infinitive | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | heir | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A son to take the throne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 son | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 throne | det |
| 6 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive | the throne | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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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