Test 9 · ★ · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…
no cap, how'd the fairy get there so fast?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: get
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fairy | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fairy | advmod |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fairy | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fairy | det |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cap | conj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fast | advmod |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 get | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | no cap and the fairy | there | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 huge fiery chariot pulled by twelve dragons over the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chariot | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chariot | amod |
| 3 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chariot | amod |
| 4 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 chariot | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 dragons | case |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 dragons | nummod |
| 8 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a huge fiery chariot not said here | the sea | by twelve dragons | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
flying carpet with a swan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 flying | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 swan | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swan | det |
| 5 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 flying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | carpet | with a swan | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carpet=Theme |
Option 3
she flew on a golden chariot pulled by fierce dragons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 chariot | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chariot | det |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chariot | amod |
| 6 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chariot | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 dragons | case |
| 9 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dragons | amod |
| 10 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | she | a golden chariot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on chariot=Location | ||||
| 2 | pull | participle | a golden chariot not said here | by fierce dragons | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
fiery chariot with dragons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chariot | amod |
| 2 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 dragons | case |
| 4 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chariot | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1427-pg503-part14/t9/