Test 9 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked…
where was the prisoner kept, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prisoner · What happens: be, keep, innit
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 693 «Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked stepfather, a milk-brook, and a golden cage» 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prisoner | det |
| 4 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 where | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | the prisoner | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | the prisoner not said here | 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
in a golden box under the throne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 box | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 box | amod |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 throne | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 throne | det |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
in a golden cage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 cage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cage | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cage | amod |
| 4 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
in a tall iron cage set in the courtyard of the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cage | det |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cage | amod |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cage | compound |
| 5 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cage | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 courtyard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courtyard | det |
| 9 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 courtyard | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | a tall iron cage not said here | the courtyard of the palace | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Destination |
Option 4
in the tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 tower | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 3 | tower | tower | 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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