Test 6 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: L…
Is Labakan really a tailor or what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Labakan · What happens: be · To what, where: tailor
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 716 «Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: Labakan steals a robe, sets off as a prince, and robs his friend» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tailor | cop |
| 2 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tailor | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 tailor | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tailor | det |
| 5 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 what | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tailor | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tailor | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Labakan | a tailor | 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
Nah, he works for a bad master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 works | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 works | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | he | for a bad master | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for master=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he's a tailor but he dreams of being a prince and lies about it all day long
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 tailor | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tailor | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tailor | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tailor | det |
| 6 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreams | nsubj:outer |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 dreams | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dreams | nsubj |
| 9 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 prince | case |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 prince | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreams | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lies | cc |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dreams | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lies | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lies | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 lies | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a tailor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dream | present | a tailor | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of a prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie | present | a tailor not said here | day | about it; long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location |
Option 3
Nah, he's a cook who once trained as a tailor in a faraway city across the sea
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 cook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cook | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cook | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cook | det |
| 6 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 trained | advmod |
| 9 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cook | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 tailor | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tailor | det |
| 12 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trained | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 15 | faraway | faraway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 city | amod |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trained | obl |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trained | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a cook | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | train | participle · passive | a cook | a faraway city | as a tailor; across the sea; once property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as tailor=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he works for a clever master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 works | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 works | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 works | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | he | for a clever master | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for master=Beneficiary |
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