Test 5 · ★ · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…

wait, why'd the king ban spindles, like totally?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds her» 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	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 wait	parataxis
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 spindles	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spindles	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ban	compound
7	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spindles	compound
8	spindles	spindle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 why	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 totally	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 totally	case
11	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 spindles	advmod
12	?	?	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

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

to stop the curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curse	det
4	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		the curse					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality curse=Eventuality

Option 2

for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to dodge the prediction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 dodge	mark
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prediction	det
4	prediction	prediction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dodge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	to-infinitive		the prediction					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent prediction=Location

Option 4

to be mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 mean	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	cop
3	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						mean property	tree rules

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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