Test 4 · ★ · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…
Dead gutted, right, the young Queen was gonna get eaten. What did she say to him?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: gut, eat, say · To what, where: young Queen, him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1082 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 7: the Ogress-Queen orders her grandchildren and daughter-in-law to be eaten, the clerk saves them, and she orders a tub of snakes for them all» 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
Sentence 1: Dead gutted, right, the young Queen was gonna get eaten.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADV | _ | 2 gutted | advmod |
| 2 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gutted | punct |
| 4 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 12 eaten | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eaten | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Queen | amod |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 eaten | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 eaten | aux:pass |
| 10 | gonna | gonna | PART | _ | 12 eaten | mark |
| 11 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gutted | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | dead property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | past · passive | the young Queen | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What did she say to him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | Queen | him = he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Fine, go ahead and do it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fine | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | ahead property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Get on with it then, but spare my little ones first, please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Get | obl |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Get | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spare | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 spare | cc |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spare | obj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 spare | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 14 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 Get | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on | imperative | you not said here | then | with it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | spare | infinitive | you not said here | my little ones | first property | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Asset |
Option 3
Go on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | imperative | you not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Do it, just get on with it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get on | infinitive | with it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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