Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…
what did the wolves and dogs plan, no lie?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolves · What happens: do, plan
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolves | det |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plan | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dogs | cc |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wolves | conj |
| 7 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 lie | det |
| 10 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | plan | present | the wolves and dogs | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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
a big dinner in the village where they'd eat every goose and calf in the square
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dinner | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dinner | amod |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 eat | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 goose | det |
| 12 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 calf | cc |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goose | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 square | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 square | det |
| 17 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | would | a big dinner | every goose and calf | the village | in the square | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Patient |
Option 2
a big party on farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 party | amod |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 farm | case |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 party | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a big dinner on the farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dinner | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dinner | amod |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 farm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farm | det |
| 6 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dinner | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a sheep hunt in fields
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunt | det |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunt | amod |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fields | case |
| 5 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunt | 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.
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