Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with…
Mate, did the princess just prick her finger and the whole palace goes dead asleep?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess, whole palace · What happens: prick, go · To what, where: finger
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 120 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with the whole palace until a prince's kiss wakes her» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prick | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prick | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prick | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 prick | advmod |
| 7 | prick | prick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 finger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prick | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 goes | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palace | amod |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | nsubj |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 prick | conj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 asleep | amod |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 goes | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 prick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | past · do-support | the princess | princess's finger | Mate vocative | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | present | the whole palace | asleep property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Yeah, a needle prick and the whole palace dozes off, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 dozes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prick | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prick | det |
| 4 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prick | compound |
| 5 | prick | prick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dozes | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 palace | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prick | conj |
| 10 | dozes | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 dozes | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dozes | punct |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dozes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doze off | present | a needle prick and the whole palace | proper property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Nah, only a tiny scratch, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 scratch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 scratch | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scratch | det |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scratch | amod |
| 6 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scratch | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a spindle prick and everyone nods off, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 prick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prick | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prick | det |
| 4 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prick | compound |
| 5 | prick | prick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nods | cc |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 nods | nsubj |
| 8 | nods | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prick | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 nods | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proper | punct |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prick | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod off | present | everyone | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Yeah, mate, it's a bit mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeah | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mad | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mad | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mate | a bit obl:unmarked; mad property | tree rules |
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