Test 6 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…
so the prince steals the flask and his brothers chop him up? harsh
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, brothers · What happens: steal, chop up · To what, where: flask, prince
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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 steals | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 steals | nsubj |
| 4 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flask | det |
| 6 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 steals | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chop | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chop | nsubj |
| 10 | chop | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 steals | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chop | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 chop | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 steals | punct |
| 14 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 steals | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present | the prince | the flask | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flask=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chop up | present | prince's brothers | prince | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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
yeah, that's proper bad, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | cop |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bad | amod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bad | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | mate vocative; bad property | tree rules |
Option 2
nah, fair play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 play | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 play | amod |
| 4 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, proper wicked, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wicked | punct |
| 3 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 wicked | advmod |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wicked | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, wicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 wicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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