Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets…
Okay, so he shot the poet right in the heart?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: shoot · To what, where: poet, heart
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 308 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets in a wet boy who shoots him with an arrow» 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 5 shot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 shot | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shot | nsubj |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poet | det |
| 7 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obj |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 heart | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | he | the poet | the heart | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent poet=Theme in heart=Destination |
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
Yep, straight through his heart and out the back, mate, that's rough
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 heart | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 heart | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 back | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 back | det |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 back | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rough | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 rough | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rough | cop |
| 16 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | rough property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, grazed his cheek, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 grazed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grazed | punct |
| 3 | grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grazed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cheek | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graze | past | his cheek and mate | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer |
Option 3
Nah, it went right through his chest and lungs, pretty bad, mate
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 chest | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lungs | cc |
| 10 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chest | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bad | punct |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 13 bad | advmod |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chest | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mate | punct |
| 15 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chest | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | it | his chest and lungs and mate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through chest=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yep, straight through, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 through | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADV | _ | 1 Yep | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | 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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