Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to…
Like, the queen was sooo gutted. Wat did she reckon was worse than dying?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen, Wat · What happens: gut, reckon, be, die · To what, where: queen, Wat
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Like, the queen was sooo gutted.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 gutted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gutted | aux:pass |
| 6 | sooo | so | ADV | _ | 7 gutted | advmod |
| 7 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | the queen | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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: Wat did she reckon was worse than dying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wat | wat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worse | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wat | acl:relcl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worse | cop |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 dying | mark |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 worse | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 worse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | queen | Wat not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wat=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Wat | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | Wat not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
The options
Option 1
Being lost in the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lost | aux:pass |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund · passive | the forest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in forest=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Living in a cabin without any servants or fine food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 cabin | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cabin | det |
| 4 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Living | obl |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 servants | det |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Living | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 food | cc |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 food | amod |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 servants | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | a cabin | without any servants or fine food | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cabin=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Being stuck in the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stuck | cop |
| 2 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the palace | stuck property | tree rules |
Option 4
Losing her husband and never seeing her children again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | cc |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 seeing | advmod |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Losing | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 seeing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | her husband | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not see | gerund | her children | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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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