Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the K…
Wait, what did the Council reckon about beauty?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Council · What happens: wait, reckon
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1091 «Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the King swear, the King goes mad, and the Princess flees to her godmother» 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reckon | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 reckon | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckon | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Council | det |
| 6 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | 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 | reckon | past · do-support | the Council | about beauty | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute |
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
beauty mattered most
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mattered | nsubj |
| 2 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 mattered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | past | beauty | most | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
beauty didn't matter if she was virtuous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 matter | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 matter | advmod |
| 4 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 virtuous | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 virtuous | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 virtuous | cop |
| 8 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 matter | csubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | past · do-support | beauty | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | beauty | virtuous property | tree rules |
Option 3
beauty mattered if she was plain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mattered | nsubj |
| 2 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 plain | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 plain | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plain | cop |
| 6 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mattered | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | past | beauty | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | beauty | plain property | tree rules |
Option 4
beauty was everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 everything | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 everything | cop |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | beauty | everything | tree rules |
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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