Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…
Wait, the Emperor was gonna chop his head off, wasn't he?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Emperor · What happens: wait, be, not be · To what, where: he
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chop | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chop | cop |
| 6 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 chop | dep |
| 7 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 chop | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 he | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 he | cop |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 he | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Emperor | chop property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | he | 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
Yeah, beheading the next day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 beheading | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beheading | punct |
| 3 | beheading | behead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beheading | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behead | gerund | day | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, just prison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 prison | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 prison | advmod |
| 4 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, hanging him at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 hanging | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hanging | punct |
| 3 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hanging | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dawn | case |
| 6 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | him = he | dawn | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, chopping him up tomorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 chopping | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chopping | punct |
| 3 | chopping | chop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chopping | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 chopping | compound:prt |
| 6 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chopping | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop up | gerund | him = he | tomorrow | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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