Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…
Was the cave sus or proper peak?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cave sus
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sus | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sus | det |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sus | compound |
| 4 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 peak | cc |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peak | amod |
| 7 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sus | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the cave sus or proper peak | 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
It was sus, she was well scared and her heart was pounding loads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sus | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sus | cop |
| 3 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scared | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scared | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scared | cop |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 scared | advmod |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sus | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pounding | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pounding | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pounding | aux |
| 13 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sus | conj |
| 14 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pounding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | suspect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | scared, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pound | past · progressive | her heart | loads | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Product |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It was sus, she was well scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sus | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sus | cop |
| 3 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scared | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scared | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scared | cop |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 scared | advmod |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sus | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | suspect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | scared, well property | tree rules |
Option 3
It was lush, she was chilled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lush | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lush | cop |
| 3 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chilled | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chilled | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chilled | aux:pass |
| 7 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lush | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | lush property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chill | past · passive | she | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 4
It was mid, she was bored yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mid | cop |
| 3 | mid | mid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bored | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bored | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bored | cop |
| 7 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mid | conj |
| 8 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mid | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | mid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | bored property | tree rules |
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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