Test 5 · ★ · The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog beco…
Did Celia fancy the white dove from the start, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Celia · What happens: fancy · To what, where: white dove, start
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1480 «The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog becomes a dove, and Blue Beard leaves his wife the keys» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancy | aux |
| 2 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | nsubj |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dove | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dove | amod |
| 6 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 start | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 start | det |
| 9 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dove | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fancy | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past · do-support | Celia | the white dove | the start | 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
She gave it a crown and sent it off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 sent | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | She | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient crown=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send off | past | She not said here | crown | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, she hated it and kicked it out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hated | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hated | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kicked | cc |
| 7 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hated | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kicked | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 kicked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | she | it | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kick out | past | she not said here | it | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3
She ignored it, the whole time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ignored | nsubj |
| 2 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ignored | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ignored | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ignored | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past | She | it | time | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she only liked it, and promised to love it always
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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liked | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 love | mark |
| 11 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 love | obj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 love | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | she | it | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | she not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | it | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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