Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…
Wicked, what was the princess's cape made of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: Wicked cape
This is test 7 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cape | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 cape | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cape | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cape | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 princess | case |
| 8 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cape | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 made | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cape | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the princess's Wicked cape | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | the princess's Wicked cape not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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 finest silk brought from the eastern islands across the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 silk | det |
| 2 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 silk | amod |
| 3 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 silk | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 islands | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 islands | det |
| 7 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 islands | amod |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obl |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | participle | the finest silk not said here | the eastern islands | across the sea | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from island=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Thousands of butterfly wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wings | case |
| 3 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | compound |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Thousands of butterfly wings stitched together with golden thread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wings | case |
| 3 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | compound |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 5 | stitched | stitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wings | acl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 stitched | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 thread | case |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thread | amod |
| 9 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stitched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stitch together | participle | butterfly wings not said here | with golden thread; together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Embroidered velvet and gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 velvet | amod |
| 2 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gold | cc |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 velvet | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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