Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…
Was the boy proper sorry about his oath, or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 oath | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 oath | nmod:poss |
| 8 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sorry | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | about boy's oath; properly, sorry property | 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
Sorta, but he kept the oath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sorta | Sorta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 kept | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oath | det |
| 7 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Sorta | the oath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, he was glad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 glad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | glad property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Kinda sad, but he kept it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 2 sad | advmod |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 kept | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sad | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Maybe sorry, but he kept his word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 2 sorry | advmod |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 kept | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sorry | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 word | nmod:poss |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | his word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | word | his = he | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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