Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-princ…

What was the boy when he zipped through the keyhole, like, in what form?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be, zip · To what, where: boy, keyhole

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1229 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-prince steals the sword, and the mermaid pulls him under the waves» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 zipped	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 zipped	nsubj
7	zipped	zip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 keyhole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 keyhole	det
10	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 zipped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	10 keyhole	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 zipped	parataxis
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 what	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the boy					tree rules
2	zip	past	boy	the keyhole					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keyhole=Patient

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

A moth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moth	det
2	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bee	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A ghost wearing a crown of thorns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ghost	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crown	det
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wearing	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 thorns	case
7	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crown	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund	a ghost not said here	a crown of thorns					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
2	crown			thorns					nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A tiny silver fish swimming through the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	compound
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fish	acl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund	a tiny silver fish not said here			the air			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory

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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