Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…
What did the stone-cutter reckon he wanted to be, dead?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, cutter reckon · What happens: do, want, be · To what, where: cutter reckon
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reckon | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cutter | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 stone | punct |
| 6 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | compound |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckon | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reckon | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the cutter reckon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckon=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want | past | he | the cutter reckon not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cutter reckon not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
The sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A rich man living in a silken house with many servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 servants | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 servants | amod |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 house | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | a rich man not said here | a silken house with many servants | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A rich man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A great lord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | 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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