Test 15 · ★ · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…
the raven's invites, was the merman invited, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merman, raven · What happens: be, invite · To what, where: merman, invites
This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 raven | det |
| 2 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invites | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 raven | case |
| 4 | invites | invite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 invited | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 invites | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 merman | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merman | det |
| 8 | merman | merman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invited | nsubj |
| 9 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invited | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 invited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the merman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | invite | past | the merman | the raven's invites | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | invite | the raven | nom invite «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Yeah, the elf king and his household first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 king | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | compound |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 household | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 household | nmod:poss |
| 8 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 king | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, the goblin's sons were first, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 first | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goblin | det |
| 4 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 goblin | case |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 first | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 first | cop |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 8 first | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the goblin's sons | first property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the merman and his daughter first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 merman | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 merman | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merman | det |
| 4 | merman | merman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daughter | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 merman | conj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 merman | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bruv | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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