Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…
Last one, what did the stone-cutter want to be in the end, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone cutter · What happens: want, be · To what, where: Last one, end
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 want | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cutter | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cutter | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 stone | punct |
| 9 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 end | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 end | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mate | punct |
| 17 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · do-support | the stone cutter | Last one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | in the end and mate | 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 · ← Mova's choice
The moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bright star shining over the whole kingdom of the immortals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 star | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kingdom | amod |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 immortals | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 immortals | det |
| 11 | immortals | immortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kingdom | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | a bright star not said here | the whole kingdom of the immortals | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kingdom=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
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 4
A star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 star | det |
| 2 | star | star | 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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