Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…
bro what turned the swan back into a princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: turn back · To what, where: swan
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swan | det |
| 5 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 princess | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | bro | the swan | into a princess | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Theme |
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
three feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 feathers | nummod |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
dipping her in the bath three times while John held the feathers over her head
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 held | advcl |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 dipping | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dipping | obl |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 dipping | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 held | mark |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feathers | det |
| 12 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 held | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | gerund | John not said here | her = she | the bath | time | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bath=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | hold | past | John | the feathers | John's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme over head=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
dipping her in the bath three times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 dipping | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dipping | obl |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 dipping | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | gerund | her = she | the bath | time | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bath=Trajectory |
Option 4
waving the feathers three times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feathers | det |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 waving | obj |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 waving | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | the feathers | time | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
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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