Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wit…
Was the gnome well embarrassed when she caught him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gnome · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: gnome, him
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gnome | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gnome | det |
| 3 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 embarrassed | csubj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 embarrassed | advmod |
| 5 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 caught | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embarrassed | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 embarrassed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the gnome | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | gnome | him = he | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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, he went all shy and quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 shy | advmod |
| 6 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 quiet | cc |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | shy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, not at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was proper red-faced
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 faced | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 faced | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 faced | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 faced | cop |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faced | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faced | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 red | punct |
| 8 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | faced property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nope, he laughed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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