Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be…
Mate, why did she bring cake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: bring · To what, where: cake
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 bring | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | she | cake | Mate vocative | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cake=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
to calm the lions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 calm | mark |
| 2 | calm | calm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lions | det |
| 4 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 calm | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | to-infinitive | the lions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lion=Experiencer |
Option 2
to please the dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 please | mark |
| 2 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dogs | det |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 please | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | to-infinitive | the dogs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dog=Experiencer |
Option 3
to calm the lions and the Dwarf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 calm | mark |
| 2 | calm | calm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lions | det |
| 4 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 calm | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Dwarf | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dwarf | det |
| 7 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lions | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | to-infinitive | the lions and the Dwarf | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lion=Experiencer |
Option 4
to calm the hungry lions in the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 calm | mark |
| 2 | calm | calm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lions | det |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lions | amod |
| 5 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 calm | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calm | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | to-infinitive | the hungry lions | the forest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lion=Experiencer |
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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