Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…
Yo, how did Rosette not sink? Her bed had phoenix feathers in it
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rosette, bed · What happens: not sink, have · To what, where: phoenix feathers, it
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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
Sentence 1: Yo, how did Rosette not sink?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 sink | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sink | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sink | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sink | aux |
| 5 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sink | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sink | advmod |
| 7 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sink | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sink | past · do-support | Rosette | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: Her bed had phoenix feathers in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bed | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | phoenix | phoenix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feathers | compound |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rosette's bed | phoenix feathers | it | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
phoenix feathers in the mattress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | phoenix | phoenix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feathers | compound |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mattress | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mattress | det |
| 5 | mattress | mattress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feathers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a bed of seaweed and reeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reeds | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 seaweed | case |
| 4 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bed | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 bed | cc |
| 6 | reeds | reed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reed | present | a bed of seaweed | tree rules |
Option 3
a soft bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bed | amod |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
they floated on the water well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 floated | nsubj |
| 2 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floated | obl |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 floated | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | they | the water | well property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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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