Test 8 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…
So who's the bee, like, is it a wasp in disguise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wasp, bee · What happens: be · To what, where: bee, wasp, disguise
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 bee | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bee | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bee | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bee | det |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wasp | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bee | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 bee | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bee | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wasp | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wasp | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wasp | det |
| 12 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 disguise | case |
| 14 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wasp | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 wasp | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a wasp | the bee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the bee | a wasp | disguise | tree rules |
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 wasp sat on a bramble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wasp | det |
| 4 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bramble | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bramble | det |
| 8 | bramble | bramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a wasp | a bramble | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bramble=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, a bumble-bee on honeysuckle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 bee | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bee | det |
| 4 | bumble | bumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bee | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bumble | punct |
| 6 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 honeysuckle | case |
| 8 | honeysuckle | honeysuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bee | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, just a wasp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 wasp | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wasp | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wasp | det |
| 5 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, a hornet on a hedgerow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 hornet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hornet | det |
| 4 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hedgerow | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hedgerow | det |
| 7 | hedgerow | hedgerow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hornet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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