Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Toads and Diamonds: two sisters at the founta…
did the prince actually fancy the kind girl or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, fancy · To what, where: prince, kind girl
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1477 «Fairy Tales, Toads and Diamonds: two sisters at the fountain, one gets pearls and diamonds, the other gets snakes and toads» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 fancy | advmod |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prince | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fancy | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 nah | cc |
| 10 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 girl | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fancy | infinitive | the prince not said here | the kind girl | actually property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
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, he fell in love with her straight up and asked her to marry him right away, mate
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | obl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 up | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | obj |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 marry | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mate | punct |
| 20 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | he | love | with her = she; mate vocative | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | he not said here | her = she | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | him = he | away property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2
yeah, he kinda liked her but not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 liked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 liked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | nsubj |
| 4 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 5 liked | advmod |
| 5 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 not | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 liked | conj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 liked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | he | her = she | kinda property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he fell in love with her straight up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | obl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 up | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | he | love | with her = she | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
Option 4
nah, he only liked her a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 liked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 liked | advmod |
| 5 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | he | her = she | a bit obl:unmarked | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
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