Test 3 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…

why did the poets keep sending her like a million poems?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poets · What happens: send · To what, where: her

This is test 3 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sending	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sending	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poets	det
4	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sending	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sending	aux
6	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sending	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 poems	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 million	det
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 poems	nummod
11	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sending	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sending	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	the poets	her = she				like million poems	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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

they wanted to get her to smile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 smile	mark
7	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	they		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	her = she	tree rules
3	smile	to-infinitive	her = she not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to make her laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laugh	advcl
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	her = she					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
2	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they were all trying to impress her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 trying	advmod
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 impress	mark
6	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 impress	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	they					all property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	impress not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 4

they were all hoping to trick her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hoping	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hoping	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 hoping	advmod
4	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 trick	mark
6	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hoping	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past · progressive	they					all property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	trick not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	her = she					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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