Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…
Did the White Cat actually make the Prince forget stuff?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, make, forget · To what, where: White Cat, Prince, stuff
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1451 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cat | det |
| 3 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cat | amod |
| 4 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forget | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the White Cat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the Prince | actually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive | the Prince not said here | stuff | tree rules |
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
Nah, just wine, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wine | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 wine | advmod |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fam | punct |
| 6 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wine | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, that crystal goblet was a proper magic drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 drink | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drink | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 goblet | det |
| 4 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goblet | amod |
| 5 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drink | det |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drink | amod |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drink | amod |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that crystal goblet | a proper magic drink | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, a proper drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 drink | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 drink | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drink | amod |
| 5 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, that goblet was just a posh cup of water, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 cup | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 goblet | det |
| 4 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cup | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cup | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 cup | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cup | det |
| 8 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cup | amod |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cup | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cup | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that goblet | a posh cup and bruv | of water | 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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