Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

Did the Prince's little dog get a chance to win? Honest answer!

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little dog · What happens: get, win · To what, where: chance

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Did the Prince's little dog get a chance to win?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Prince	case
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chance	det
9	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 win	mark
11	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 chance	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the Prince's little dog	a chance					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus
2	win	to-infinitive	the Prince's little dog not said here	a chance not said here					vn succeed-74-2 «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.

Sentence 2: Honest answer!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Nah, he lost, sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
6	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the story leaves it open, that's the vibe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 leaves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	nsubj
5	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leaves	obj
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leaves	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vibe	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 vibe	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 vibe	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vibe	det
12	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	the story	it				open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	that	the vibe					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the big dogs won the race, that's the vibe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dogs	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dogs	amod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 won	nsubj
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 race	det
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vibe	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 vibe	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 vibe	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vibe	det
13	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the big dogs	the race					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
2	is a	present	that	the vibe					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he won, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 won	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 won	nsubj
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	he	bruv					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Eventuality

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