Test 4 · ★ · tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Prince…
Wait, her shoes went bust and she just went on barefoot?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shoes, she · What happens: wait, go · To what, where: barefoot
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1530 «tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Princess climbs a ladder of chicken bones and finds her Pig husband» 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 went | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 6 | bust | bust | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 barefoot | case |
| 12 | barefoot | barefoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | 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 | go | past | her shoes | bust property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | she | barefoot | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on barefoot=Location |
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
Yeah, bogs and thorns and all, she just kept on going through the wood
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bogs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bogs | punct |
| 3 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thorns | cc |
| 5 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bogs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 all | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 bogs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 kept | advmod |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bogs | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 going | mark |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 kept | xcomp |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | she not said here | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she found some nice new boots in a cottage by the wood, mate
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 found | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 boots | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boots | amod |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boots | amod |
| 8 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mate | punct |
| 16 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wood | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | she | some nice new boots | a cottage | by the wood and mate | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Topic |
Option 3
Yeah, she just walked on mud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | she | mud | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mud=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, bogs and thorns and all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bogs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bogs | punct |
| 3 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thorns | cc |
| 5 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bogs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 all | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 bogs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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