Test 3 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…
Mate, what was actually in his pocket that got him caught?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, pocket, him · What happens: be, get, catch · To what, where: pocket, him
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 711 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels is caught and wed, then Paul gathers three strong friends and finds a dragon's captive» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pocket | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 pocket | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pocket | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 pocket | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pocket | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj | ||
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pocket | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 got | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mate and his pocket | his pocket | actually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | his pocket | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | participle | him = he not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
A jewelled sword hilt wrapped in silk cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hilt | det |
| 2 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hilt | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hilt | compound |
| 4 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hilt | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cloth | case |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cloth | compound |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jewell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | a jewelled sword hilt not said here | silk cloth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A gold-embroidered slipper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 slipper | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embroidered | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gold | punct |
| 4 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slipper | amod |
| 5 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A silver brooch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brooch | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brooch | amod |
| 3 | brooch | brooch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A small golden box with the princess's seal inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 box | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 box | amod |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 seal | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 9 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | nmod |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 seal | advmod |
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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