Test 12 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…
did the queen think her daughter was a good person?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen, daughter · What happens: think, be · To what, where: good person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 person | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | the queen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | queen's daughter | a good person | 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
yeah, she trusted her completely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 trusted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trusted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trusted | nsubj |
| 4 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trusted | obj |
| 6 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 trusted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | past | she | her = she | completely property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, she kinda knew she was spoiled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 knew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spoiled | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 8 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 knew | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | she | kinda property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spoil | past · passive | she | tree rules |
Option 3
nah, she kinda knew she was spoiled and tried to fix her all the time
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 knew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spoiled | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 8 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fix | mark |
| 12 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fix | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 time | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fix | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | she | kinda property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spoil | past · passive | she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | past | she not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | her = she | time | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 4
nah, she kinda knew she was spoiled but never said anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 knew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spoiled | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoiled | cop |
| 8 | spoiled | spoiled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 said | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | she | kinda property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | spoiled property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | past | she not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
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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