Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Toads and Diamonds: two sisters at the founta…
where was the kind girl hiding when the prince found her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kind girl, prince · What happens: be, hide, find · To what, where: girl
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 where | nsubj |
| 6 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 girl | acl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 found | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hiding | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the kind girl | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | the kind girl not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | the prince | girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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
in the woods, weeping alone there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 woods | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woods | det |
| 3 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weeping | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woods | punct |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 weeping | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 weeping | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | there | in the woods; alone property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wood=Theme |
Option 2
hiding in a barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 barn | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 barn | det |
| 4 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 hiding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | a barn | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barn=Location |
Option 3
in the wood, crying her heart out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 wood | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 crying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | gerund | her heart | the wood | out property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
in the forest, sobbing her eyes out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sobbing | punct |
| 5 | sobbing | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 forest | acl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sobbing | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 sobbing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob out | gerund | the forest not said here | her eyes | out property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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