Test 11 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…
were the other kings chill about her being so picky?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: other kings · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: other kings
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1421 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud princess and a queen's bargain with a dwarf» 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 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kings | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kings | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kings | amod |
| 4 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 5 | chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 picky | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 picky | nmod:poss |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 picky | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 picky | advmod |
| 10 | picky | picky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chill | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the other kings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chill | present | the other kings | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the other kings not said here | picky property | 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
yeah, they all got really mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | det |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 mad | advmod |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | mad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nope, they just kept sending poems
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sending | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | they | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | gerund | they not said here | poems | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, a lot of them got super sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lot | nmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | super | super | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a lot of them | sad, super property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
nah, a lot of them got super sad and wrote even more verses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lot | nmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | super | super | ADV | _ | 9 sad | advmod |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 got | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrote | cc |
| 11 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 verses | amod |
| 14 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrote | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a lot of them | sad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | write | past | a lot of them not said here | more verses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme |
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