Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess str…
Bro, the Princess is still going, innit? Nine seas, nine continents, and now she's on the sandy desert, mate.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, Princess · What happens: go, innit, be · To what, where: sandy desert
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» 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: Bro, the Princess is still going, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | Bro and the Princess | still | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | Bro and the Princess not said here | 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.
Sentence 2: Nine seas, nine continents, and now she's on the sandy desert, mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 seas | nummod |
| 2 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 continents | punct |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 continents | nummod |
| 5 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seas | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desert | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 desert | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 desert | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 desert | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 desert | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 desert | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 desert | det |
| 13 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 desert | amod |
| 14 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seas | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mate | punct |
| 16 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 desert | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seas | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Princess | the sandy desert and mate | now | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She's on the desert, then the mountains, then the Moon's crib
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 desert | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 desert | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 desert | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 desert | det |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mountains | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 mountains | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 desert | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crib | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 crib | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Moon | det |
| 13 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 crib | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Moon | case |
| 15 | crib | crib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | the desert and the mountains and the Moon's crib | tree rules |
Option 2
Sand now, mountains later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Sand | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mountains | punct |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sand | conj |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Sand | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She's on the desert, then the mountains, then the Sun's crib
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 desert | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 desert | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 desert | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 desert | det |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mountains | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 mountains | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 desert | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crib | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 crib | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 crib | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Sun | case |
| 15 | crib | crib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | the desert and the mountains and the Sun's crib | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, she's on the sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 sand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sand | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sand | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sand | det |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | the sand | tree rules |
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