Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…
fr, did the mice actually want to stay on that island?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, mice · What happens: do, want, stay · To what, where: island
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1416 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ring, then lose it at sea» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mice | det |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 want | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 want | advmod |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the mice | actually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the mice not said here | that island | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=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 · ✓ the right answer
nah, they felt like total failures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 failures | case |
| 6 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 failures | amod |
| 7 | failures | failure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 felt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | they | like total failures | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like failure=Theme |
Option 2
nah, they wanted to go back to the boat and fight the captain's cats again
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 boat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fight | cc |
| 12 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 captain | det |
| 14 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cats | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 captain | case |
| 16 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fight | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 fight | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | they | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | to the boat result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to boat=Result | ||||
| 3 | fight | infinitive | they not said here | the captain's cats | again | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent |
Option 3
nah, they wanted to go home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | they | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yes, they loved the island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 loved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | they | the island | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
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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