Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…
Hold on, what broke the spell?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold on, break · To what, where: spell
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Hold | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spell | det |
| 7 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | past | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=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
A wind through the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The queen's own hand cracking the last needle in two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 queen | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hand | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 needle | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 needle | amod |
| 9 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cracking | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 two | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cracking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | gerund | the queen's own hand not said here | the last needle | two | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location needle=Theme |
Option 3
A bright light flashing from the golden flask in the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 light | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 flask | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flask | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flask | amod |
| 8 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flashing | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flashing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | gerund | a bright light not said here | the golden flask | in the room | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The last needle breaking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 breaking | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 breaking | amod |
| 3 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breaking | compound |
| 4 | breaking | breaking | 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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