Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…
so who got whacked, fr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: whack · To what, where: fr
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 whacked | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 whacked | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whacked | aux:pass |
| 4 | whacked | whack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fr | punct |
| 6 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whacked | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 whacked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whack | past · passive | fr | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the king, by the guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 guard | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 guard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guard | det |
| 6 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the boy, by his mum, who also took his sword away for the whole week
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mum | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 mum | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 took | nsubj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sword | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 week | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 week | amod |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | the boy by boy's mum | boy's sword | week | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the boy, by his mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mum | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 mum | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | 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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