Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…
That's so cringe, how did the queen end up a fish?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, cringe · What happens: be, do, end up · To what, where: cringe, queen, fish
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cringe | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cringe | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 cringe | advmod |
| 4 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 did | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cringe | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 end | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | cringe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | end up | present | cringe | a fish | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient fish=Result |
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
She threw herself in the sea
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 | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | She | herself = she | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in sea=Destination |
Option 2
She jumped from the high cliff
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 | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cliff | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cliff | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cliff | amod |
| 6 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | She | the high cliff | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cliff=Trajectory |
Option 3
She drowned
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 | 2 drowned | nsubj |
| 2 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | She | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
She was cursed by a wizard
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 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cursed | aux:pass |
| 3 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wizard | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wizard | det |
| 6 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cursed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past · passive | a wizard | She | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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