Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre…
Be real, how many candles were by the coffin?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many candles · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 real | cop |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coffin | csubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 candles | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 candles | amod |
| 6 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 coffin | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 coffin | cop |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 coffin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coffin | det |
| 10 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 coffin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | real property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | many candles | by the coffin | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
four, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 four | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
five, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 five | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
twelve candles, lowkey, all in a row
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 candles | nummod |
| 2 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lowkey | punct |
| 4 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 candles | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 candles | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 row | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 row | det |
| 9 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
eight of them, all lit, no cap, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lit | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 eight | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lit | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 lit | det |
| 6 | lit | lit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cap | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 cap | det |
| 9 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lit | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bro | punct |
| 11 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cap | 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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