Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed pri…
Why was the crowd all happy in the square?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowd · What happens: be · To what, where: square
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1479 «Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed prince becomes a monster and then a little dog» 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 | 6 happy | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 square | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 square | det |
| 9 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the crowd | the square | all, happy property | 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
Cos the new king gave everyone free food and new clothes from the royal stores
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 gave | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 gave | obj |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clothes | cc |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 food | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 stores | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stores | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stores | amod |
| 15 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the new king | free food and new clothes | everyone | the royal stores | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient food=Theme |
Option 2
Cos it was Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 Sunday | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Sunday | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Sunday | cop |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | cos Sunday | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Cos the courtiers were gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courtiers | det |
| 3 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the courtiers | gone property | tree rules |
Option 4
Cos the Prince was back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 back | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 back | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 back | cop |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 back | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | back, home 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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