Test 8 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…
Where'd the doves go when they got scared, like?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doves · What happens: go, get
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doves | det |
| 4 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | ccomp |
| 9 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 got | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | the doves | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | past | doves = dove | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Up the top of a tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Up the top of a tree, miles from the cottage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 miles | punct |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 top | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 miles | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Back up to the top of the big old tree in the wood, safe
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 safe | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 up | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 top | punct |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Into the big bush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 4 bush | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bush | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bush | amod |
| 4 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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