Test 1 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…
Yo, why'd the Swallow even stay behind, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Swallow · What happens: stay · To what, where: bruv
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 8 stay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 stay | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 6 Swallow | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Swallow | det |
| 6 | Swallow | Swallow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 8 stay | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | infinitive | the Swallow | bruv | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
He was proper into some Reed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Reed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Reed | cop |
| 3 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 Reed | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 Reed | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 Reed | det |
| 6 | Reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | some Reed | properly property | tree rules |
Option 2
He fancied some reed, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fancied | nsubj |
| 2 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 reed | det |
| 4 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fancied | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 innit | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | He | some reed and innit | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reed=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He was well in love with some Reed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 love | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 love | case |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Reed | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 Reed | det |
| 8 | Reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | love | with some Reed; well property | tree rules |
Option 4
Cos he was dead lazy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 lazy | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lazy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lazy | aux |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lazy | amod |
| 5 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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