Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…
Lol, where did the fool reckon his brains were hiding?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fool, brains · What happens: reckon, hide
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 reckon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reckon | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 reckon | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckon | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brains | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hiding | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hiding | aux |
| 11 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 reckon | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the fool | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past · progressive | fool's brains | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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
Hidden deep inside his wife's silly head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 1 Hidden | advmod |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 7 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 head | amod |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | his wife's silly head | deep property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside head=Location |
Option 2
Hidden in the bottom of his big wooden chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 bottom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottom | det |
| 4 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hidden | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chest | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chest | amod |
| 8 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chest | amod |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottom | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | the bottom of his big wooden chest | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bottom=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In his wife's head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 wife | case |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Under his old hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 hat | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hat | amod |
| 4 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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