Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…
so the carpenter smashed his statue and gold just poured out, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: carpenter, statue · What happens: smash, pour out
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 smashed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carpenter | det |
| 3 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smashed | nsubj |
| 4 | smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 statue | nmod:poss |
| 6 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poured | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gold | cc |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 statue | conj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 poured | advmod |
| 10 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smashed | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 poured | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 poured | punct |
| 13 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 smashed | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 smashed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | past | the carpenter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pour out | past | carpenter's statue and gold | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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
gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coins | compound |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
just gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | just | just | ADV | _ | 2 gold | advmod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a rush of golden coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rush | det |
| 2 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coins | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coins | amod |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rush | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | golden coins | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a stream of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stream | det |
| 2 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stream | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/395-pg21-part16/t1/