Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…
so who's the boss of the moor, the marsh dude?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: boss
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 boss | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 boss | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boss | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boss | det |
| 5 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 moor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moor | det |
| 8 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dude | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dude | det |
| 11 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dude | compound |
| 12 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boss | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 boss | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the boss and the marsh dude | of the moor | 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 · ✓ the right answer
the Marsh King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Marsh | Marsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the reed lord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | compound |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the Egyptian host's daughter, who is lost on the moor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 host | det |
| 2 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 host | amod |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 host | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux:pass |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 moor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moor | det |
| 12 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | the Egyptian host's daughter | the moor | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 4
the Marsh King who lives in the reed palace and rules all the frogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Marsh | Marsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 8 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | compound |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rules | cc |
| 11 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 palace | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 frogs | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 frogs | det |
| 14 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lives | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Marsh King | all frogs | the reed palace and rules | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
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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