Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…
Ok, what did the baby do in that brass chest, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby · What happens: do · To what, where: brass chest
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chest | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 chest | det |
| 10 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chest | compound |
| 11 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chest | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | the baby | that brass chest and bruv | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Slept soundly, not scared of waves, rocked by the sea all night long, bruv
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 1 Slept | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waves | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 scared | advmod |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waves | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 waves | case |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Slept | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rocked | punct |
| 9 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 waves | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rocked | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 long | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 rocked | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bruv | punct |
| 17 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waves | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | participle | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rock | participle | scared waves and bruv not said here | by the sea; long property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
Option 2
Cried a lot, scared of waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lot | det |
| 3 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cried | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scared | punct |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cried | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 waves | case |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a lot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Slept soundly, not scared of waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 1 Slept | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scared | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 scared | advmod |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Slept | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 waves | case |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | participle | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Slept sweetly, scared of nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 1 Slept | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scared | punct |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Slept | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | participle | sweetly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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