Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…
Was the princess, like, grown up or still a little kid?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, grow up · To what, where: princess
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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 princess | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 5 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 princess | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grown | punct |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 princess | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 kid | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 kid | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kid | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kid | amod |
| 13 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grown | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 princess | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | the princess not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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
She was fifteen, so old enough to be wed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fifteen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fifteen | cop |
| 3 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fifteen | amod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wed | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wed | aux:pass |
| 10 | wed | w | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 old | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | She | fifteen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | w | to-infinitive · passive | She not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She was sixteen, so old enough to be wed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sixteen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sixteen | cop |
| 3 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sixteen | amod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wed | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wed | aux:pass |
| 10 | wed | w | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 old | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | She | sixteen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | w | to-infinitive · passive | She not said here | tree rules |
Option 3
She was sixteen and still played with dolls all day, so not really old enough to be wed
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sixteen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sixteen | cop |
| 3 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 played | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 played | cc |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 played | advmod |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dolls | case |
| 8 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 old | advmod |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 played | conj |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wed | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wed | aux:pass |
| 19 | wed | w | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 old | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | She | sixteen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | participle | still; day | with dolls | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with doll=Theme | ||||
| 3 | w | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules |
Option 4
She was sixteen, so old enough to be wed, and everyone said she was clever
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sixteen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sixteen | cop |
| 3 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sixteen | amod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wed | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wed | cop |
| 10 | wed | wed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sixteen | conj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 clever | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 clever | cop |
| 17 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | She | sixteen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | She not said here | wed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | she | clever property | tree rules |
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