Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…
Dude, who did the youth threaten with a blade to win a wife?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: threaten, win · To what, where: wife
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threaten | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | nsubj |
| 7 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 blade | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blade | det |
| 10 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 win | mark |
| 12 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 threaten | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 win | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 threaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · do-support | Dude | with a blade | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | Dude not said here | a wife | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality |
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 herdsman himself, the master of the oxen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 herdsman | det |
| 2 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 herdsman | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 herdsman | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 oxen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oxen | det |
| 9 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 master | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the herdsman himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 herdsman | det |
| 2 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 herdsman | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the herdsman's youngest daughter's father, the old man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 herdsman | det |
| 2 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 herdsman | case |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 daughter | amod |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 daughter | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the herdsman's wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 herdsman | det |
| 2 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 herdsman | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | 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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