Test 6 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…

Wait, what was Frisk actually up to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Frisk

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Frisk	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Frisk	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Frisk	cop
5	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 Frisk	compound
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 up	fixed
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		Frisk					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

he chased the boatman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boatman	det
4	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	he	the boatman					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Theme

Option 2

he sat quietly by the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he					by the bed; quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location

Option 3

he barked and woke all the fish in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barked	nsubj
2	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 woke	cc
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 barked	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fish	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 woke	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	past	he not said here	all fish		the sea			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he barked and woke the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barked	nsubj
2	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 woke	cc
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 barked	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	past	he not said here	the fish					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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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