Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to…
Mad, the queen went on about her husband's chariot. Where was it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mad queen, chariot · What happens: go on, be
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» 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
Sentence 1: Mad, the queen went on about her husband's chariot.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 queen | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 chariot | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 husband | case |
| 11 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the Mad queen | about queen's husband's chariot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about chariot=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: Where was it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chariot | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Sunk at the bottom of the quicksilver lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunk | Sunk | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 bottom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottom | det |
| 4 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sunk | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 7 | quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lake | compound |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Lying in the wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 wood | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wood | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | the wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
Option 3
Hidden by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 river | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 river | det |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | by the river | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location |
Option 4
Broken near the gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 gate | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Broken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | the gate | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near gate=Location |
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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