Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…
Mate, what was the golden road made of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, make · To what, where: golden road
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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 | _ | 7 road | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 road | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 road | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 made | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and the golden road | the golden road | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the golden road not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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
Solid shining gold from the mine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gold | amod |
| 2 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 gold | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 mine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mine | det |
| 6 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gold | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Bright silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 silver | amod |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Shining gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shining | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
Option 4
Shining gold plates laid on the stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 plates | amod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plates | compound |
| 3 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 plates | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stones | det |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lay | participle | Shining gold plates not said here | the stones | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination |
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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