Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…
Lol, what did the King threaten to do to the nurse?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: threaten, do
This is test 13 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 threaten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 threaten | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threaten | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | nsubj |
| 7 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 threaten | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 nurse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nurse | det |
| 12 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 threaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · do-support | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | to the nurse | vn act-114-1 «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
cut off her head and the head of the boatman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 cut | compound:prt |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 cut | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 head | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boatman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boatman | det |
| 10 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | imperative | you not said here | her head and the head of the boatman | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
cut off her head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 cut | compound:prt |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 cut | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | imperative | you not said here | her head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
Option 3
banish her from town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | banish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 banish | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 banish | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | imperative | you not said here | her = she | town | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from town=Source |
Option 4
throw her in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 throw | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 throw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | imperative | you not said here | her = she | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in sea=Destination |
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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