Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…
Was the queen dead nice to Eliza or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen · What happens: be · To what, where: Eliza
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nice | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nice | amod |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Eliza | case |
| 7 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nice | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 Eliza | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 nice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen | Eliza | nice property | tree rules |
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
Quite cruel to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 cruel | advmod |
| 2 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cruel | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Always rude to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 rude | advmod |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rude | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Totally mean and cruel, forcing her to work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 mean | advmod |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cruel | cc |
| 4 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mean | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forcing | punct |
| 6 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 mean | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forcing | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 forcing | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | imperative | you not said here | totally property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | force | gerund | you not said here | her = she | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Totally mean to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 mean | advmod |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mean | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | imperative | you not said here | her = she | totally property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to she=Attribute |
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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