Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

Did the princess go dead pale or was she proper chill when he said it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess, he · What happens: go, be, say · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pale	amod
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 chill	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chill	cop
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chill	nsubj
10	proper	properly	ADV	_	11 chill	advmod
11	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 said	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chill	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the princess		pale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	princess		chill, properly property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	he	it		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

she went white as a ghost

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 ghost	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ghost	det
6	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					as a ghost; white property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she turned as white as a ghost and fell back in her seat

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 white	advmod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 ghost	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 seat	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 seat	nmod:poss
13	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she					white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	fall back	past	she not said here			her seat			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in seat=Location

Option 3

she went red as a beet

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 beet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beet	det
6	beet	beet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					as a beet; red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

she went as white as a ghost and sat down

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 white	advmod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 ghost	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					white property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	she not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «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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