Test 1 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…
Wicked, the lion whistled like a kettle, right? How many times did it whistle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked lion, lion · What happens: whistle
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» 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: Wicked, the lion whistled like a kettle, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lion | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lion | det |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whistled | nsubj |
| 5 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 kettle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kettle | det |
| 8 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whistled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 whistled | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 whistled | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 whistled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | the Wicked lion | like a kettle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.
Sentence 2: How many times did it whistle?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 whistle | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whistle | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 whistle | nsubj |
| 6 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 whistle | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past · do-support | lion | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
again and again until the sun set
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | again | again | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 again | conj |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 7 set | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | compound |
| 7 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 again | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
more than a dozen times in a row
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 dozen | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 more | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dozen | det |
| 4 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 row | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 row | det |
| 8 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 times | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
four times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
three times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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