Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six bro…
what did the king say about the six guys
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 667 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: the six brothers show their trades to the king, and he calls them to his counsellors» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | acl:relcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 guys | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guys | det |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 guys | nummod |
| 9 | guys | guy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obl |
| # | 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 | say speech: assert | present | the king | about the six guys | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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
they're just kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kids | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kids | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 kids | advmod |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | kids | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
they're masters of their trades
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 masters | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 masters | cop |
| 3 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 trades | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trades | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trades | trade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 masters | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | masters | of masters's trades | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trade | masters = master | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
they're all liars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 liars | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 liars | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 liars | advmod |
| 4 | liars | liar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | liars | all property | tree rules |
Option 4
they're thieves, every one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thieves | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thieves | cop |
| 3 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thieves | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | thieves | tree rules |
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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