Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…
lowkey, how many times did the sword slide in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: do · To what, where: sword slide
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 slide | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slide | compound |
| 9 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 did | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | lowkey | the sword slide | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slide=Eventuality |
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
like three times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 times | discourse |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nine times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
seven times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
every single time he swung it over and over until it finally slid in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swung | nsubj |
| 5 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swung | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 swung | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 over | cc |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 over | conj |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 slid | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slid | nsubj |
| 12 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 13 slid | advmod |
| 13 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swung | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 slid | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing over | past | he | it | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | slide in | past | it | finally property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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