Test 9 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: L…
Was Labakan being a bit extra or nah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Labakan · What happens: be · To what, where: Labakan
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Labakan | cop |
| 2 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 extra | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 extra | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extra | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nah | cc |
| 8 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 extra | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 extra | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Labakan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | Labakan | a bit obl:unmarked; extra property | 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
Yeah, he was acting very proud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 acting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 acting | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 acting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 acting | aux |
| 5 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 proud | advmod |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 acting | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | past · progressive | he | proud property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was well full of himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 full | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 full | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 full | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 full | advmod |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | of himself = he; full, well property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, he was strutting about the workshop like a king and bragging to every single customer
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 strutting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strutting | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 strutting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strutting | aux |
| 5 | strutting | strut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 workshop | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 workshop | det |
| 8 | workshop | workshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strutting | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strutting | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bragging | cc |
| 13 | bragging | brag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 strutting | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 customer | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 customer | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 customer | amod |
| 17 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bragging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strut | past · progressive | he | about the workshop; like a king | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about workshop=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | brag speech: other | gerund | he not said here | every single customer | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to customer=Recipient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he was just trying on a robe, nothing more, and then he went back to work
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 trying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trying | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 trying | advmod |
| 6 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 robe | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 robe | det |
| 9 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trying | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nothing | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 robe | appos |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 nothing | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trying | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 work | mark |
| 20 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · progressive | he | a robe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | he | then | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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