Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the…
Ngl, was Eglantine a total legend for claiming the doe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be, claim · To what, where: total legend, doe
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» 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 | 7 legend | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 legend | cop |
| 4 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 legend | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 6 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legend | amod |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 claiming | mark |
| 9 | claiming | claim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 legend | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doe | det |
| 11 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claiming | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 legend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ngl | a total legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | gerund | Ngl not said here | the doe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent doe=Topic |
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
Nah, she bluffed kinda rough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bluffed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bluffed | nsubj |
| 4 | bluffed | bluff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 6 rough | advmod |
| 6 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bluffed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bluff | past | she | rough property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, she lied real slick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lied | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lied | nsubj |
| 4 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slick | amod |
| 6 | slick | slick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lied | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | she | real slick | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slick=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she bluffed really smooth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bluffed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bluffed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bluffed | nsubj |
| 4 | bluffed | bluff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 smooth | advmod |
| 6 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bluffed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bluff | past | she | smooth property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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