Test 2 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…
Was Labakan proper scared when he rode up the hill, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Labakan · What happens: be, ride up · To what, where: Labakan, hill
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 717 «Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken for the prince, but the queen doubts him» 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 | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | proper | prop | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 scared | advmod |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Labakan | amod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 rode | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 rode | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nah | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 nah | cc |
| 13 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 rode | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Labakan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ride up | past | Labakan | the hill | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme |
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
Nah, he was chill, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | cop |
| 5 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chill | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | mate vocative; chill property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, his heart was going mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 going | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 going | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | his heart | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 calm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, he was dead scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scared | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scared | amod |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | scared property | tree rules |
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