Test 7 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…
The king pays six shillings, is that mad cheap or nah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: pay, be · To what, where: six shillings
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pays | nsubj |
| 3 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 shillings | nummod |
| 5 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pays | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheap | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cheap | cop |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 cheap | mark |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cheap | amod |
| 10 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pays | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 nah | cc |
| 12 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 cheap | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | the king | six shillings | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the king not said here | cheap property | tree rules |
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
Honestly fair for a cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 2 fair | advmod |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 cat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fair | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pretty cheap for a cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 cheap | advmod |
| 2 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 cat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cheap | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Actually cheap, the king could have paid far more gold for the whole palace
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Actually | actually | ADV | _ | 2 cheap | advmod |
| 2 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gold | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cheap | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 paid | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 paid | aux |
| 8 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gold | amod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 paid | advmod |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gold | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | could · perfect · passive | the king | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
Option 4
Nah, that's a fortune, the cat was worth way more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 fortune | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fortune | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fortune | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fortune | det |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fortune | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | cop |
| 11 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 way | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a fortune | worth way | 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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