Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…
Mental, the king gets tied to a tree. What kind of tree?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: get, tie
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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
Sentence 1: Mental, the king gets tied to a tree.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gets | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mental | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gets | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tied | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tie | participle | the king not said here | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-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.
Sentence 2: What kind of tree?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
A tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A tall pine tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A big fir tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
An oak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 oak | det |
| 2 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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