Test 11 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…
Was the prince bored in the castle?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, bore · To what, where: prince, castle
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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 prince | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bored | csubj |
| 4 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bored | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bore | participle | the castle | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in castle=Location |
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
Yeah, he missed his sweetheart badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 missed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 missed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 missed | nsubj |
| 4 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missed | obj |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 missed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | he | his sweetheart | badly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweetheart=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yeah, he was lonesome for his true love, and he couldn't stop thinking about her
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lonesome | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lonesome | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lonesome | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lonesome | cop |
| 5 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lonesome | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stop | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 stop | advmod |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lonesome | conj |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stop | xcomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thinking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | for his true love; lonesome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stop | could | he | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | he not said here | about her = she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | love | his = he | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he was lonesome for his true love and wandered the halls all day
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lonesome | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lonesome | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lonesome | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lonesome | cop |
| 5 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wandered | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lonesome | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wandered | cc |
| 11 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 halls | det |
| 13 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wandered | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | for his true love; lonesome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | lonesome | the halls | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | love | his = he | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was lonesome for his true love
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lonesome | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lonesome | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lonesome | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lonesome | cop |
| 5 | lonesome | lonesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lonesome | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | for his true love; lonesome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | his = he | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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