Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…
Innit the Prince gave the Giant's nose a proper bashing, so what hit him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: give, hit · To what, where: Giant nose, Prince
This is test 5 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nose | det |
| 6 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nose | amod |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Giant | case |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bashing | det |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bashing | amod |
| 11 | bashing | bashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hit | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 hit | advmod |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 hit | nsubj |
| 15 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hit | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Innit | the Giant nose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nose=Recipient bashing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit | past | Prince | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
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 right answer
a bit of serpent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bit | det |
| 2 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 serpent | case |
| 4 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a bit of branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bit | det |
| 2 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 branch | case |
| 4 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a heavy lump of the wicked serpent's tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lump | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lump | amod |
| 3 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tail | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 serpent | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 serpent | amod |
| 7 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 serpent | case |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lump | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a sharp piece of the broken golden sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 piece | amod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sword | amod |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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