Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…
Which bro took the left road, the one nobody rated?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: take, rate · To what, where: left road, one
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bro | det |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 5 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rated | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 rated | nsubj |
| 11 | rated | rate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | which bro | the left road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rate | participle · passive | the one | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice
The eldest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The fool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fool | det |
| 2 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The youngest prince who was ignored by all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ignored | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ignored | aux:pass |
| 6 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 prince | acl:relcl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 ignored | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past · passive | the youngest prince | by all | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Poor Jack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Jack | amod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/254-pg14241-part21/t6/