Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the fal…
was the Fairy of the Fountain actually there, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1172 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the false bride is taken to the palace and exposed» 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 | 8 there | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fountain | det |
| 6 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fairy | nmod |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nah | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nah | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 there | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Fairy of the Fountain | actually, there property | 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
No, but her spell was in the silver brocade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 brocade | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brocade | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 brocade | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brocade | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brocade | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 brocade | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brocade | det |
| 9 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brocade | amod |
| 10 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | her spell | the silver brocade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spell | her = she | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, she sat hidden in the carriage roof the whole way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 hidden | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hidden | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | aux:pass |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roof | compound |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | she | the carriage roof | the whole way obl:unmarked | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in roof=Location |
Option 3
Yes, by the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 window | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 window | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, but invisible
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 invisible | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 invisible | cc |
| 4 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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