Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…
Wait, what did he bring the princess as his marriage portion?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, bring · To what, where: princess
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 bring | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 portion | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 portion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 portion | compound |
| 12 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · do-support | he | the princess | as his marriage portion | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme princess=Destination |
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
A funny story, bruv, about a flying trunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trunk | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 trunk | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trunk | det |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 trunk | amod |
| 10 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A long story that was dead funny and made the king laugh.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 funny | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 funny | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 funny | amod |
| 7 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 funny | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 laugh | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laugh | compound |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a long story | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a long story | the king laugh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset laugh=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | 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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