Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Youngest Prince and the Apples, part 23:…
Wait, the handkerchief thing, did the prince fail it, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, handkerchief thing · What happens: wait, do, fail · To what, where: prince, it
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 256 «Fairy Tales, The Youngest Prince and the Apples, part 23: the bear's forest, the watch in the tree and the handkerchief test» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | compound |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fail | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fail | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fail | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the handkerchief thing not said here | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fail | present | the handkerchief thing | it | bruv obl | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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
Nah, he passed, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 passed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 6 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 passed | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | he | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, he stumbled a bit, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stumbled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stumbled | nsubj |
| 4 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stumbled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bit | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble | past | he | a bit | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bit=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he danced on it, no probs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 danced | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 danced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 probs | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 probs | det |
| 9 | probs | prob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | he | no probs | it | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |
Option 4
Yeah, he tripped on it, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 tripped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tripped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tripped | nsubj |
| 4 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tripped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tripped | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | past | he | it | mate vocative | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
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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