Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Wait, what was the crow going off about, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, crow · What happens: wait, be, go off · To what, where: crow

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crow	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 crow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crow	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crow	det
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 crow	acl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 going	compound:prt
9	about	about	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crow	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the crow and fam		tree rules
3	go off	gerund	the crow and fam not said here		about property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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

Him forgetting the two maidens spinning flax in the hut, the big dumb prince

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgetting	nsubj
2	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maidens	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 maidens	nummod
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgetting	obj
6	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 forgetting	advcl
7	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spinning	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spinning	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 forgetting	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 prince	amod
14	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 prince	amod
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgetting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	gerund	Him = he	the two maidens					tree rules
2	spin	gerund	Him = he not said here	flax		the hut			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme

Option 2

Them ignoring the two spinning maidens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignoring	nsubj
2	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maidens	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 maidens	nummod
5	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 maidens	amod
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ignoring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	gerund	Them = they	the two spinning maidens					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
2	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Them forgetting the two maidens spinning flax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgetting	nsubj
2	forgetting	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maidens	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 maidens	nummod
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgetting	obj
6	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 flax	amod
7	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgetting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	gerund	Them = they	the two maidens					tree rules
2	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Them forgetting the two maidens spinning flax, and the promise made on the sea

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgetting	nsubj
2	forgetting	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maidens	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 maidens	nummod
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgetting	obj
6	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 maidens	acl
7	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spinning	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promise	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 promise	det
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgetting	obl
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 promise	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget	gerund	Them = they	the two maidens		the promise obl	tree rules
2	spin	gerund	the two maidens not said here	flax			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme
3	make	participle		the promise not said here	the sea		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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