Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 39: the prince runs off,…
Ngl, why did the doe run out of puff so fast?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, doe · What happens: do, run · To what, where: puff
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1173 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 39: the prince runs off, and the doe becomes a girl each night» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doe | det |
| 6 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | nsubj |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 puff | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 puff | case |
| 10 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 run | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ngl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run | present | the doe | puff | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out puff=Trajectory |
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
She'd never worked her legs properly since she was locked up in that tower
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 worked | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 worked | advmod |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worked | obj |
| 7 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 4 worked | advmod |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 locked | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 locked | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 locked | aux:pass |
| 11 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 worked | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 locked | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tower | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 tower | det |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | would | She | her legs | properly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leg=Material | |||
| 2 | lock up | past · passive | she | that tower | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She'd never worked her legs in that tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 worked | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 worked | advmod |
| 4 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worked | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tower | det |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not work | would | She | her legs | that tower | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leg=Material |
Option 3
She was sick from the forest food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sick | cop |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 food | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | compound |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sick | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | the forest food | sick property | tree rules |
Option 4
She'd been kept in a tower so long that her legs had never run far before
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 kept | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 run | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 run | advmod |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kept | advcl |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 before | advmod |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | She | a tower | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in tower=Location | |||
| 2 | not run | past · perfect · passive | her legs | before property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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