Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…
What happened to her thread after the prince left?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: prince
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 thread | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thread | nmod:poss |
| 5 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 prince | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | after the prince | to her thread | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | the prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice
Got rubbish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rubbish | amod |
| 2 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Went grey, proper naff now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Went | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proper | punct |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 naff | nsubj |
| 5 | naff | naff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Went | parataxis |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 naff | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | grey property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | naff | present | proper | now | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Went dull, proper rubbish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rubbish | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dull | punct |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rubbish | amod |
| 5 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dull proper rubbish | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Went dull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dull property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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