Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…
Did the Princess reckon the sky would ever let her out, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Princess, sky · What happens: reckon, let out · To what, where: Princess
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 let | advmod |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckon | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 let | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nah | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 nah | cc |
| 14 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckon | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the Princess | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let out | would | the sky | Princess | ever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 · ✓ the right answer
She just watched the clouds and wondered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wondered | cc |
| 7 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | She | the clouds | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | She not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
She just watched the birds and dreamed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 birds | det |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dreamed | cc |
| 7 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 watched | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | She | the birds | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dream | participle | She not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
She just watched the clouds and wondered, dreaming of freedom from the brass prison
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wondered | cc |
| 7 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreaming | punct |
| 9 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 watched | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 freedom | case |
| 11 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreaming | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 prison | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prison | det |
| 14 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prison | compound |
| 15 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreaming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | She | the clouds | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | She not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | dream | gerund | She not said here | the brass prison | of freedom | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
She just watched the clouds drift by and wondered if she'd ever be free, bruv
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drift | nsubj |
| 6 | drift | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 drift | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wondered | cc |
| 9 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 free | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 free | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 free | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 free | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 free | cop |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wondered | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bruv | punct |
| 17 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drift by | present | the clouds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | She not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | would | she | ever | free property | tree rules |
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