Test 10 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…
Real talk, what ended Ralph's ship?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: ship
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ship | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ship | nsubj |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ship | cop |
| 6 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ship | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Ralph | case |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Real talk and Ralph's ship | Ralph's ship | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Smashing into the rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smashing | smash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Smashing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | gerund | into the rock result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into rock=Result |
Option 2
Smashing into the rock in the fog, proper bad luck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smashing | smash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 rock | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Smashing | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fog | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fog | det |
| 7 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Smashing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 luck | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luck | amod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luck | amod |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fog | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | gerund | into the rock result; in the fog and proper bad luck | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into rock=Result |
Option 3
Crashing into a wave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crashing | crash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 wave | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wave | det |
| 4 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crashing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | gerund | into a wave result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into wave=Result |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Hitting the rock, going down, mate, proper dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 dead | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hitting | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Hitting | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hitting | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dead | amod |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | gerund | the rock | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | go down | gerund | mate vocative; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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