Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the…
wait so was snow white's mom wishing for hair like ebony?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mom · What happens: wait, be, wish · To what, where: mom
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 105 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the crown with a carpet, a ring and a bride; then Snow-White begins» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 mom | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mom | cop |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | compound |
| 5 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 white | case |
| 7 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 8 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 mom | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hair | case |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wishing | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 ebony | case |
| 12 | ebony | ebony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wishing | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | snow white's mom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish | gerund | snow white's mom not said here | for hair; like ebony | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for hair=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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, black as the window-frame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 black | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 black | punct |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 frame | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 frame | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frame | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 window | punct |
| 8 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 black | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, she wanted blonde hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | blonde | blonde | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hair | amod |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | blonde hair | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hair=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, like a raven's feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 feathers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feathers | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 feathers | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 raven | det |
| 5 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 raven | case |
| 7 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, like gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gold | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | 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.
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