Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turns the wick…
ok last one, what did the people do after the King was stone?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, King · What happens: do, be · To what, where: ok last one
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1458 «Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turns the wicked King to stone» 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stone | cop |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | ok last one | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the King | after stone | 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 · ✓ the right answer
they cheered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cheered | nsubj |
| 2 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past | they | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
they bowed low
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 bowed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | they | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
they cheered and rushed to the palace to crown the new king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cheered | nsubj |
| 2 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rushed | cc |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cheered | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 crown | mark |
| 9 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rushed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | amod |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crown | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past | they | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | rush | past | they not said here | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | crown | to-infinitive | they not said here | the new king | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
Option 4
they went home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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