Test 7 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Mic…

he was too scared to ask for a go at the princess thing, lowkey relatable

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: princess thing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1504 «Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Michael the Star Gazer finds two magic laurels» 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 go	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 go	det
9	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 thing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	compound
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lowkey	punct
15	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	conj
16	relatable	relatable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	he not said here			the princess thing and lowkey		for a go	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

ikr, he didn't want to be laughed at

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ikr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 laughed	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 laughed	aux:pass
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 want	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	9 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	he					ikr vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	laugh not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	he not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»

Option 2

ikr, too real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 real	advmod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ikr	acl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

ikr, he was too scared to even try

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ikr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 try	mark
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 try	advmod
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	ikr					scared property	tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive	ikr not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

ikr, he was scared of getting jeered at

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ikr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 getting	mark
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 scared	advcl
8	jeered	jeer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 getting	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 jeered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	ikr	scared property	tree rules
2	get	gerund	ikr not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	jeer	participle	ikr not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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