Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…
Yeah, the King's son wanted a bride who was what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son, bride · What happens: want, be
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 son | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 what | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 what | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wanted | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the King's son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a bride | tree rules |
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
both the poorest and the richest bride in the land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 poorest | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poorest | det |
| 3 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bride | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bride | det |
| 6 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 bride | amod |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poorest | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bride | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the wisest and the bravest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wisest | det |
| 2 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bravest | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bravest | det |
| 5 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 wisest | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a bride who was poor in coin but rich in heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 poor | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 poor | cop |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bride | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 coin | case |
| 7 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poor | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 rich | cc |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 poor | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rich | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a bride | coin | poor property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | a bride not said here | heart | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the poorest and the richest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 poorest | det |
| 2 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 richest | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 richest | det |
| 5 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 poorest | 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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