Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess str…
Mate, her poor feet are a mess, all torn and bleeding and that. Wild, but she still keeps on going.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor feet, mess, she · What happens: be, tear, bleed, keep, go · To what, where: mess, all, that
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Mate, her poor feet are a mess, all torn and bleeding and that.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mess | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feet | amod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mess | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mess | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mess | det |
| 8 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 torn | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mess | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bleeding | cc |
| 13 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 torn | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 that | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bleeding | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | her poor feet | a mess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | participle · passive | a mess not said here | all | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bleed | gerund | a mess not said here | that | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source |
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: Wild, but she still keeps on going.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keeps | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 keeps | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 keeps | advmod |
| 6 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wild | conj |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wild | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | she | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | she not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Yeah, she is tough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 tough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tough | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tough | cop |
| 5 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | tough property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she keeps on going anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 keeps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keeps | xcomp |
| 7 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | she not said here | anyway property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she's tough and doesn't give up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 tough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tough | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tough | cop |
| 5 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 give | advmod |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tough | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 give | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not give up | present · do-support | she not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, she's sore but still walking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sore | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sore | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sore | cop |
| 5 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 walking | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 walking | advmod |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sore | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | she not said here | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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