Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…
Dead clever, what was a progress for a king?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: clever progress
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clever | amod |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 progress | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 progress | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 progress | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 progress | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 progress | det |
| 7 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 progress | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 progress | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a clever progress | for a king | 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
a ride to inspect the realm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ride | det |
| 2 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 inspect | mark |
| 4 | inspect | inspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ride | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 realm | det |
| 6 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inspect | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inspect | to-infinitive | the realm | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Theme |
Option 2
a visit to his farms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 visit | det |
| 2 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 farms | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 farms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 visit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a trip to check his land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 trip | det |
| 2 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 check | mark |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trip | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 land | nmod:poss |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 check | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | to-infinitive | his land | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a long journey around the kingdom to see his people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 journey | amod |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kingdom | det |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 journey | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 journey | acl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | his people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
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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