Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…
Dude, who told the Emperor to make the prisoner do a task?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: tell, make, do · To what, where: Emperor, prisoner, task · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 do | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prisoner | det |
| 10 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 task | det |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Dude | the Emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the prisoner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product | |||||
| 3 | do | present | a task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
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
the King in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 disguise | case |
| 4 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Emperor's advisor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 advisor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Emperor | case |
| 4 | advisor | advisor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the chief minister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the old wolf who had been pretending to be the King all along and whispered in his ear
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pretending | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 pretending | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretending | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 pretending | aux |
| 7 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 King | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 King | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pretending | xcomp |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 along | advmod |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 pretending | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whispered | cc |
| 15 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretending | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ear | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ear | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whispered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past · perfect · progressive | the old wolf | along property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the old wolf not said here | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | the old wolf not said here | wolf's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
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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