Test 5 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…
Who nicked the Princess right off her mum's arms?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: nick · To what, where: Princess, arms
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 nicked | nsubj |
| 2 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nicked | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 arms | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nicked | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 nicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | the Princess | Princess's mum's arms | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme off arm=Source |
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
Some ugly little Dwarf, riding off on his huge cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 Dwarf | nsubj |
| 2 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dwarf | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dwarf | amod |
| 4 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 riding | punct |
| 6 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Dwarf | acl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 riding | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cat | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cat | amod |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 riding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | gerund | ugly little Dwarf not said here | on Dwarf's huge cat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The Yellow Dwarf, riding off on his massive cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dwarf | det |
| 2 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dwarf | amod |
| 3 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 riding | punct |
| 5 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Dwarf | acl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 riding | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cat | amod |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | gerund | the Yellow Dwarf not said here | on Dwarf's massive cat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Yellow Dwarf, on his cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dwarf | det |
| 2 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dwarf | amod |
| 3 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dwarf | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cat | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dwarf | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Yellow Dwarf, on foot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dwarf | det |
| 2 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dwarf | amod |
| 3 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dwarf | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dwarf | nmod |
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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