Test 10 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da…

Was the hermit well happy to see the Queen and her ladies?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hermit · What happens: be, see · To what, where: Queen

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ladies	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ladies	nmod:poss
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Queen	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hermit					happy, well property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the hermit not said here	the Queen and her ladies					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 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

Yeah, he was dead chuffed and invited them all in for tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	aux:pass
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chuffed	amod
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 invited	cc
8	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chuffed	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 invited	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 them	nmod:unmarked
11	in	in	ADV	_	8 invited	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 tea	case
13	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 invited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he					tree rules
2	invite	past		them = they				for tea	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was happy to see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					happy property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was vexed cos he hated ladies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 vexed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vexed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vexed	aux:pass
5	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 hated	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hated	nsubj
8	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vexed	advcl
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive		he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hate	past	he	ladies					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, he was scared of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of them = they; scared property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1524-pg540-part21/t10/