Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…
did the queen give up her crown or her dress?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen · What happens: give up, crown · To what, where: crown
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 queen | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 give | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 crown | nmod:poss |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 dress | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crown | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | present | the queen | queen's crown or queen's dress | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Source | ||||
| 2 | crown | queen | nom crown «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
her crown, for the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 crown | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crown | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | her = she | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
her dress, to save her man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 save | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 save | mark |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 man | nmod:poss |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | to-infinitive | her dress | her man | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
her crown, to help her husband
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 crown | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 help | mark |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | her crown | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crown | her = she | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
her dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | 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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