Test 11 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…
The king's hat fell off, yeah? What was it called?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hat · What happens: fall off, call · To what, where: hat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1968 «Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wins his place at court across 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
Sentence 1: The king's hat fell off, yeah?
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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 fell | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 8 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fell | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | past | the king's hat | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
Sentence 2: What was it called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | hat | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1
his crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 crown | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
his hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
his turban
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 turban | nmod:poss |
| 2 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the long red cloak lined with fur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloak | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloak | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloak | amod |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cloak | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fur | case |
| 7 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lined | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | line | participle | the long red cloak not said here | with fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=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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