Test 4 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…

wait, the lions were literally gonna eat the queen, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lions · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: queen

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lions	det
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
6	literally	literally	ADV	_	8 eat	advmod
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 eat	dep
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	the lions	the queen				literally property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient

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

nope, they only wanted to scare her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 scare	mark
7	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scare	obj

#	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	scare not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 2

yeah, they wanted a snack instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snack	det
6	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	a snack				instead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snack=Theme

Option 3

yeah, she was about to get eaten by the two-headed lions in the desert

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 about	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 eaten	mark
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 about	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	14 lions	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lions	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 headed	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 two	punct
13	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lions	amod
14	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eaten	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 desert	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 desert	det
17	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					about property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive · passive	the headed lions			the desert			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was about to get eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 about	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	about property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	eat	participle	she not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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