Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…
Be honest, where did the tools end up, in the bin or the treasury?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, tools · What happens: be, end up · To what, where: bin
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | cop |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 end | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 end | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 end | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tools | det |
| 7 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 end | nsubj |
| 8 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 honest | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 end | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bin | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bin | det |
| 13 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 treasury | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 treasury | det |
| 16 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bin | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 honest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end up | past · do-support | the tools | in the bin or the treasury result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bin=Result |
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
in the cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 cellar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cellar | det |
| 3 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
in the chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 chest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chest | det |
| 3 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
in the king's private treasury, a long way from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 treasury | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 treasury | amod |
| 6 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treasury | appos |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
in the treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 treasury | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treasury | det |
| 3 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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