Test 9 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer
who was that ugly one who cackled at the queen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ugly one · What happens: be, cackle · To what, where: ugly one
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1506 «Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer» 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 one | mark |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cackled | nsubj |
| 7 | cackled | cackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cackled | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ugly one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cackle | past | ugly one | at the queen | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at queen=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the fairy carabosse, the witch, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carabosse | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carabosse | amod |
| 3 | carabosse | carabosse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carabosse | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carabosse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the fairy carabosse, the witch who lives in the hollow tree, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carabosse | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carabosse | amod |
| 3 | carabosse | carabosse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carabosse | appos |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 witch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 14 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carabosse | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the witch | the hollow tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
Option 3
the fairy carabosse, the witch, innit, she turned up in a massive cloak and cackled
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carabosse | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carabosse | amod |
| 3 | carabosse | carabosse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carabosse | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 carabosse | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 11 turned | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 turned | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cloak | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cloak | det |
| 15 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cloak | amod |
| 16 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cackled | cc |
| 18 | cackled | cackle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cloak | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn up | past | the fairy carabosse and the witch | a massive cloak | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloak=Location | ||||
| 2 | cackle | participle | the fairy carabosse and the witch not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
some old fairy who lives in the woods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairy | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 woods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woods | det |
| 8 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | some old fairy | the woods | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
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