Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…
so that cat's head comes off and wham, who turns up in the room
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: head, wham · What happens: come off, turn up · To what, where: room
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 6 comes | mark |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cat | case |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 comes | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turns | cc |
| 9 | wham | wham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turns | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 turns | nsubj |
| 12 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 comes | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 turns | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come off | present | that cat's head | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn up | present | wham | the room | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
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 lovely princess with a whole posse of knights and ladies, all in silk
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 posse | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 posse | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posse | amod |
| 7 | posse | posse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 knights | case |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 posse | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ladies | cc |
| 11 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knights | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 princess | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 princess | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silk | case |
| 15 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights and her mum and some dwarfs
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 posse | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 posse | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posse | amod |
| 7 | posse | posse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 knights | case |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 posse | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mum | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 posse | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dwarfs | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 dwarfs | det |
| 15 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a lovely queen with her knights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 knights | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knights | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 queen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 posse | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 posse | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 posse | amod |
| 7 | posse | posse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 knights | case |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 posse | 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/1453-pg503-part40/t2/