Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…
Mate, so the white cat was really a princess all along, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: white cat · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: princess
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 princess | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 princess | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cat | amod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 princess | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 princess | cop |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 princess | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 along | advmod |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 princess | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 14 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the white cat | a princess | along property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, proper, she was a princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 princess | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 1 Yeah | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 princess | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 princess | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a princess | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, she was just a cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 cat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cat | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cat | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 cat | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a cat | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, she was a queen, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 queen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 queen | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 queen | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 queen | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a queen and innit | 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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