Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…
Ayy, what did the guards use to batter the Prince?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayy, guards · What happens: do, use, batter · To what, where: Prince
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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 | Ayy | Ayy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guards | det |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nsubj |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 batter | mark |
| 9 | batter | batter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 batter | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ayy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | use | present | the guards | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | batter | to-infinitive | the guards not said here | the Prince | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent prince=Instrument |
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 · ✓ the right answer
horse-whips, proper harsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whips | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 horse | punct |
| 3 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 harsh | punct |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harsh | amod |
| 6 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whips | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
fists, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bruv | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fists | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
iron chains, proper rough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chains | compound |
| 2 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 chains | punct |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rough | amod |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chains | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
sticks, rough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rough | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 sticks | punct |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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