Test 11 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat: Whittington gets his treas…
why did Miranda go white, was it for the King
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miranda · What happens: go, be · To what, where: it
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1463 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat: Whittington gets his treasure, marries Alice and becomes Lord Mayor» 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 go | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 it | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 it | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | Miranda | for the King; white property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | 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 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, it was for the king, cause he asked everyone to wear white that day
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 king | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 king | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 9 | cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 11 asked | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 asked | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wear | mark |
| 14 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | white | white | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wear | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | for the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king | everyone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wear not said to happen | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
nah, cause white just suited her better and the king was not even there yet
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 cause | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cause | xcomp |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 suited | advmod |
| 6 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cause | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 better | nmod:poss |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 suited | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 there | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 there | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 there | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 there | advmod |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 there | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cause | conj |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 there | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | white property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | suit | past | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | the king | yet | there property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, cause white just suited her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 cause | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cause | punct |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 suited | advcl |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cause | xcomp |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 suited | advmod |
| 6 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 suited | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | white property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | suit | past | her = she | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, cause white was her mom's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 cause | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cause | punct |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mom | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mom | cop |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cause | obj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 mom | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | white | 's her mom | tree rules |
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