Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

why was the princess asleep on the dog's back, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be · To what, where: back

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asleep	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 dog	case
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fam	punct
12	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess			the dog's back and fam		asleep property	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

she had drunk a magic potion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drunk	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	aux
3	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 potion	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 potion	compound
6	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drunk	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · perfect	she	a magic potion					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Patient

Option 2

she had been drugged by the old lady of the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drugged	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drugged	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 drugged	aux:pass
4	drugged	drug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 lady	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drugged	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drug	past · perfect · passive	the old lady of the court	she					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the dog carried her while she slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 slept	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slept	nsubj
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the dog	her = she					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	sleep	past	dog						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the dog carried her all the way across the sea while she slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl:unmarked
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 slept	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slept	nsubj
13	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the dog	her = she		the sea		all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	sleep	past	dog						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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