Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her t…
Why did the Queen run out of her tower?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: do, run · To what, where: tower
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1449 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her true story and wins back her pinks» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 run | nsubj |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tower | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | run | present | the Queen | Queen's tower | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out tower=Trajectory |
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
The King wanted her to have a son and heir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heir | cc |
| 10 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the King | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | a son and heir | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
Option 2
The King had threatened her and wanted her to have a son, so she ran from the tower in the night
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threatened | aux |
| 4 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threatened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wanted | cc |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threatened | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threatened | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · perfect · passive | the King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result | |||||
| 2 | want | past | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | past | she | the tower | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tower=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The King wanted her to have a son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the King | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
Option 4
The King wanted her to have a daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the King | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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