Test 13 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an…
Did the lizards become footmen or just stand there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lizards · What happens: become, stand · To what, where: footmen
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1429 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end and Cinderella's wish for the ball» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lizards | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lizards | det |
| 3 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 become | nsubj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 stand | cc |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 stand | advmod |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 footmen | conj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stand | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | the lizards | footmen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | the lizards not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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
They ran and jumped on the coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 jumped | cc |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 coach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coach | det |
| 7 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | They | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | They not said here | the coach | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coach=Trajectory |
Option 2
They just stood there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | They | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
They just stood by the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | They | by the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They skipped and clung on the back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 skipped | nsubj |
| 2 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 clung | cc |
| 4 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 skipped | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 back | det |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clung | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | They | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cling | participle | They not said here | the back | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location |
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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