Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…
Were the King and Queen gutted or proper buzzin' at church?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut · To what, where: King
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gutted | aux:pass |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gutted | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Queen | cc |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 6 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 buzzin | cc |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buzzin | amod |
| 9 | buzzin | buzzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gutted | conj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 buzzin | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buzzin | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | the King and Queen | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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
Chuffed, dancing for their boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dancing | punct |
| 3 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Chuffed | advcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 boy | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dancing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuff | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | for their boy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Buzzin, feasting for their son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buzzin | Buzzin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Buzzin | punct |
| 3 | feasting | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Buzzin | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feasting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | gerund | Buzzin not said here | for their son | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Gutted, weeping for their son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeping | punct |
| 3 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Gutted | advcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weeping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | for their son | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Happy, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mate | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Happy | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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