Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre…
Real talk, why did the poor son leave home?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor son · What happens: leave
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 leave | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 talk | acl:relcl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 leave | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | the poor son | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
his dad had no food, fr
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 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fr | punct |
| 7 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 food | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | his dad | no food and fr | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
Option 2
his mom kicked him out, fr
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 mom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicked | nsubj |
| 3 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kicked | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 kicked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fr | punct |
| 7 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick out | past | his mom | him = he | fr obl | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
he wanted to find a better life in a big city far away, fr fr
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 find | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fr | punct |
| 15 | fr | fr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fr | amod |
| 16 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | fr fr | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | fr fr not said here | a better life | a big city | away property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his dad couldn't afford him, fr
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 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afford | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 afford | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afford | advmod |
| 5 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 afford | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fr | punct |
| 8 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afford | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not afford | could | his dad | him = he | fr obl | tree rules |
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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