Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…

Are the beef-eaters just dead or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beef eaters · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1081 «Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 6: the Princess pricks her hand, the palace falls asleep, and the Prince finds her awake» 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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eaters	det
3	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaters	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 beef	punct
5	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dead	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 dead	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the beef eaters					dead 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 · ✓ the right answer

No, they were only asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 asleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asleep	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 asleep	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					asleep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they were turned to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 stone	case
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		they		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 3

Yes, dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, they have all been killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 killed	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive		they				all property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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