Test 10 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…
Fam, where did the coachman's plan go wrong, like?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam, coachman · What happens: do, go, plan · To what, where: plan
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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 | 9 go | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fam | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coachman | det |
| 6 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 coachman | case |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 go | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the coachman's plan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | present | Fam | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | plan | the coachman | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 dog led the king to the stranger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 stranger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the dog | the king | the stranger | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to stranger=Destination |
Option 2
the dog led the king straight to the stranger in the dungeon cell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 stranger | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stranger | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stranger | det |
| 9 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cell | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cell | det |
| 12 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cell | compound |
| 13 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stranger | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the dog | the king | the stranger in the dungeon cell | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to stranger=Destination |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the dog ran off to the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | the dog | to the forest result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=Result |
Option 4
the guards caught the dog too soon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 caught | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the guards | the dog | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
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