Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…

fr, how smooth was that highway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be · To what, where: highway

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 highway	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smooth	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 smooth	advmod
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fr	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 highway	cop
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 highway	det
7	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 highway	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fr	that highway					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

paved with gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 paved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pave	participle						with gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme

Option 2

muddy and full of holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 full	cc
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 muddy	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 holes	case
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

smooth enough to roll an egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 smooth	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 roll	mark
4	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 smooth	advcl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roll	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	to-infinitive		a egg					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Agent

Option 4

covered in snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 snow	case
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Theme

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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