Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…
Gutted for the old king, right? Why'd he cry?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: gut, cry
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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
Sentence 1: Gutted for the old king, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gutted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 Gutted | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | for the old king | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Why'd he cry?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cry | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cry | nsubj |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | would | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
He was so sad at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 sad | advmod |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | at her = she; sad property | tree rules |
Option 2
Because he was very old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 old | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 old | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | old property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was so upset by her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 upset | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 upset | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 upset | advmod |
| 4 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 upset | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | by her = she; upset property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
She hit him
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 | 2 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | She | him = he | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
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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