Test 4 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…
Was the Lilac-fairy a proper legend or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Lilac fairy
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fairy | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 3 | Lilac | lilac | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fairy | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Lilac | punct |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legend | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legend | amod |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 legend | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 legend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Lilac fairy | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she came down in a flowery chariot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chariot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chariot | det |
| 8 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chariot | amod |
| 9 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | she | a flowery chariot | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chariot=Location |
Option 2
Yeah, she came down in a flowery chariot from the sky, proper magic
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chariot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chariot | det |
| 8 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chariot | amod |
| 9 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chariot | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 magic | punct |
| 14 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 magic | amod |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chariot | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | she | a flowery chariot from the sky and proper magic | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chariot=Location |
Option 3
Yeah, she arrived in a silver carriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 arrived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 carriage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 carriage | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 carriage | amod |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | she | a silver carriage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, she was a made-up story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 story | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 story | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 story | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | she | a made story | 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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