Test 13 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…
Yeah, what did the old abbot do about sailors dying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old abbot, sailors · What happens: do, die
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 abbot | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 abbot | amod |
| 7 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 sailors | case |
| 10 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obl |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sailors | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | the old abbot | about sailors | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | sailors not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
Put a big bell on a buoy out at sea, yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bell | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bell | amod |
| 4 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 buoy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 buoy | det |
| 7 | buoy | buoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Put | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Put | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | imperative | you not said here | a big bell | a buoy | at sea | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme on buoy=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Put a bell on a buoy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bell | det |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 buoy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 buoy | det |
| 6 | buoy | buoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a bell | a buoy | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme on buoy=Destination |
Option 3
Hired a rowing crew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crew | det |
| 3 | rowing | rowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crew | compound |
| 4 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hired | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | a rowing crew | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme |
Option 4
Built a tall church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 church | det |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 church | amod |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Built | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | a tall church | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product |
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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