Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…
What was the princess supposed to think of next time?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, suppose, think · To what, where: princess
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 princess | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 supposed | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | the princess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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.
The options
Option 1
a ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a long white glove from the drawer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 glove | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glove | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glove | amod |
| 4 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 drawer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drawer | det |
| 7 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glove | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a silver-embroidered glove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 glove | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embroidered | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 silver | punct |
| 4 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 glove | amod |
| 5 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | 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 |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a glove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 glove | det |
| 2 | glove | glove | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1009-pg27200-part220/t10/