Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be…
Wait, what was the lace thing the Queen woke up wearing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Queen · What happens: wait, be, wake up, wear · To what, where: lace thing
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | compound |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 woke | nsubj |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 woke | compound:prt |
| 12 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 woke | advcl |
| 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 | is a | past | the lace thing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wake up | past | the Queen | the lace thing not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wear | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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
a lace nightcap with ribbons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nightcap | det |
| 2 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nightcap | compound |
| 3 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 ribbons | case |
| 5 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nightcap | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a lace nightcap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nightcap | det |
| 2 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nightcap | compound |
| 3 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a fine lace nightcap trimmed with pearls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nightcap | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nightcap | amod |
| 3 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nightcap | compound |
| 4 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | trimmed | trim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nightcap | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pearls | case |
| 7 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trimmed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trim | participle | a fine lace nightcap not said here | with pearls | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |
Option 4
a velvet crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | compound |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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