Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 39: the prince runs off,…

Wait, what's the old lady's hut like, is it fancy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hut · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: hut

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hut	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 hut	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hut	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hut	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lady	case
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 fancy	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fancy	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fancy	nsubj
14	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hut	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the old lady's hut		tree rules
3	is	present	hut		fancy 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, tiny but clean, with two little white beds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tiny	punct
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 clean	cc
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tiny	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beds	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 beds	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 beds	nummod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beds	amod
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beds	amod
11	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tiny	obl

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

Option 2

Nah, it's a dark cave full of dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 cave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cave	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cave	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cave	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cave	amod
7	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cave	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 dust	case
10	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a dark cave					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, it's tiny but clean, with two little white beds and a fire

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tiny	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 clean	cc
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tiny	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beds	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 beds	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 beds	nummod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beds	amod
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beds	amod
13	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tiny	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fire	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					with two little white beds and a fire; tiny property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it's tiny but clean, and she gave them a fine warm supper too

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tiny	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 clean	cc
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tiny	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 supper	det
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 supper	amod
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 supper	amod
16	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
17	too	too	ADV	_	11 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			tiny property	tree rules
2	be						tree rules
3	give	past	she	a fine warm supper	them = they		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient supper=Theme

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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