Test 7 · Castles, knights and cathedrals
A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manners. What is he now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: send, serve, learn, be · To what, where: boy, manners
This is test 7 of lesson 21 «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history 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
Sentence 1: A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manners.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 seven | case |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux:pass |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 serve | mark |
| 8 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 household | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lord | det |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 household | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 lord | case |
| 13 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 serve | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 learn | mark |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 serve | advcl |
| 16 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 learn | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · passive | a boy of seven | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | in a lord's household | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in household=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | manners | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Topic |
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.
Sentence 2: What is he now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 he | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boy | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A squire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 squire | det |
| 2 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A knight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A page
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 page | det |
| 2 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A great lord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | 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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