Test 7 · ★ · The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog beco…
Right, so what was Blue Beard like, proper mental or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Blue | cop |
| 6 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Beard | amod |
| 7 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 Beard | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mental | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mental | amod |
| 11 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 what | parataxis |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 mental | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | blue 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
He was a tiny, lovely bloke with no money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bloke | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bloke | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bloke | det |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bloke | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tiny | punct |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bloke | amod |
| 7 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 money | det |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bloke | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a tiny lovely bloke | with no money | tree rules |
Option 2
He was a boring vicar who loved the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 vicar | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vicar | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vicar | det |
| 4 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vicar | amod |
| 5 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vicar | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loved | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | He | a boring vicar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | a boring vicar | the sea | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was rich, but his beard was so blue that women ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rich | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rich | cop |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blue | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 blue | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beard | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blue | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blue | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 blue | advmod |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rich | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 ran | mark |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blue | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | his beard | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | women | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
He was a chilled-out farmer with a blue hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 farmer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 farmer | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 farmer | det |
| 4 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 farmer | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 chilled | punct |
| 6 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 farmer | compound |
| 7 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hat | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hat | amod |
| 11 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 farmer | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | He | a chilled out farmer | with a blue hat | 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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