Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

Fam, what was the last thing the Emperor wanted nicked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: be, nick · To what, where: last thing, Fam

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nicked	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fam	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Emperor	det
9	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	appos
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 nicked	aux:pass
11	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fam and the last thing	the last thing					tree rules
2	nick	past · passive		Fam and the last thing					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the golden mermaid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mermaid	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mermaid	amod
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the golden mermaid that lived in the deep lake behind the palace garden walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mermaid	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mermaid	amod
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mermaid	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lake	amod
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walls	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 garden	compound
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walls	compound
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the golden mermaid			the deep lake		behind the garden walls	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=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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