Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned yout…
Yo, so the old lady was like ninety, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: be, innit
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1280 «Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned youth wins a strange marriage and proves he is the king's true son» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 9 ninety | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 ninety | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ninety | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ninety | cop |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 ninety | case |
| 9 | ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 ninety | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 ninety | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old lady | like ninety | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she looked bare old but her eyes were proper quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 quick | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 quick | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 quick | cop |
| 11 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 12 quick | advmod |
| 12 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | she | old property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | her eyes | properly, quick property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, she looked ancient but she was dead sharp in the head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sharp | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sharp | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sharp | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sharp | amod |
| 10 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sharp | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | she | ancient property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | the head | sharp property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, mad old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mad | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, dead old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 old | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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