Test 12 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…
Mate, who was the ship's robber boss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: robber boss
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boss | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 boss | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 boss | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boss | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 ship | case |
| 8 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boss | compound |
| 9 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and the ship's robber boss | the ship's robber boss | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Ned the Bold Pirate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ned | Ned | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pirate | det |
| 3 | Bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Pirate | amod |
| 4 | Pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ned | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ralph the Rover, the mega pirate boss of the ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rover | det |
| 3 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ralph | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boss | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boss | det |
| 6 | mega | mega | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pirate | compound |
| 7 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boss | compound |
| 8 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ralph | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Ralph the Rover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rover | det |
| 3 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ralph | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Captain Black Tom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Captain | flat |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Captain | flat |
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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