Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…
so the prince got eaten by the dragon, proper gutting, but who was the one who made it happen
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dragon, one · What happens: eat, gut, be, make, happen · To what, where: prince, one, dragon
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | ADV | _ | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux:pass |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 proper | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dragon | amod |
| 11 | gutting | gut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 proper | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 one | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | parataxis |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | the dragon | the prince | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gut | gerund | the dragon not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the one | dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | happen | infinitive | dragon not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
the crossest and ugliest old fairy from the garden behind the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 2 | crossest | cross | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fairy | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ugliest | cc |
| 4 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fairy | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fairy | amod |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fairy | nmod |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fairy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the crossest and ugliest old fairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 2 | crossest | cross | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fairy | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ugliest | cc |
| 4 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 crossest | conj |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fairy | amod |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the crossest and ugliest old fairy, who had wanted the princess all along
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 2 | crossest | cross | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fairy | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ugliest | cc |
| 4 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 crossest | conj |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fairy | amod |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wanted | aux |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wanted | obj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 along | advmod |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 wanted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · perfect | the crossest old fairy | the princess | along property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |
Option 4
the grumpy dwarf king himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 2 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 king | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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