Test 1 · ★ · Sicilian Tales, Maria and the King, part 1: a clever girl…
Yo, did Maria really climb down a rope into the king's garden twice?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maria · What happens: climb down · To what, where: rope, garden
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 723 «Sicilian Tales, Maria and the King, part 1: a clever girl outwits the king and saves her father» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 climb | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climb | aux |
| 4 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 climb | advmod |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 climb | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rope | det |
| 9 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obl |
| 15 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 climb | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 climb | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | past · do-support | Maria | a rope | the king's garden | twice 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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, mate, she only went in once, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nah | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 11 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 went | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | she | once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, she didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, mate, she did, both times, proper sick move
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeah | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 times | punct |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 times | det |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 move | punct |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 move | amod |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 move | amod |
| 13 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 times | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | she | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nah, just once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 once | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 once | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 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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