Test 10 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

Did the baby have a silly name then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby · What happens: have · To what, where: silly name

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 baby	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 name	det
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 name	amod
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 have	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the baby	a silly name			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Marguerite, which means pearl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marguerite	marguerite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Marguerite	pearl					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Desiree, which means desired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Desiree						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	desire not said to happen	participle	Desiree not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Desi, a nickname

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Desi	Desi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nickname	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nickname	det
4	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Desi	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Juliette, which means young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Juliette	Juliette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Juliette					young property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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