Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

so the frog king could talk to all the frogs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frog king · What happens: talk

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 talk	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	compound
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 frogs	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 frogs	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frogs	det
10	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	could	the frog king					to all frogs	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to frog=Co-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

Nah, only the ones by the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 ones	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ones	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, just a few

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 few	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 few	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 few	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he knew all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 knew	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he	all					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Proper, he got them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	them = they				properly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary all=Theme

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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