Test 9 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two p…
the Queen was dead worried about the eldest one, weren't she
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: be, not be
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1086 «Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two princesses and Riquet's bargain» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 worried | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worried | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worried | amod |
| 5 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worried | advcl |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 were | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worried | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | about the eldest one; worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | past | the Queen not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, she kept having a go at her, bless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 go | det |
| 7 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 having | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bless | punct |
| 11 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | she not said here | a go | at her = she | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient | |||
| 3 | bless | infinitive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
nah, she kept her quiet, bless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 quiet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bless | punct |
| 8 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kept | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bless | infinitive | she not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, she kept nagging her, bless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nagging | nag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nagging | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bless | punct |
| 8 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kept | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nag | gerund | she not said here | her = she | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bless | infinitive | she not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, she kept having a go at her, bless, and sometimes cried over her too
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 go | det |
| 7 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 having | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bless | punct |
| 11 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 cried | advmod |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | obl |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 cried | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | she not said here | a go | at her = she | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient | |||
| 3 | bless | infinitive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | she not said here | over her = she; sometimes property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over she=Location |
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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