Test 2 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…
Innit true the King wanted the baby to wed some dwarf?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: want, wed · To what, where: baby, dwarf
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Innit | appos |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wed | mark |
| 9 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 baby | acl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 dwarf | det |
| 11 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wed | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Innit | the baby | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wed | to-infinitive | Innit not said here | some dwarf | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Patient |
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
Nah, to some horrid ugly dwarf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 dwarf | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwarf | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 dwarf | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 dwarf | nsubj |
| 5 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dwarf | amod |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dwarf | amod |
| 7 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, the King wanted her to marry his son, that horrid little dwarf, dead ugly
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dwarf | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 dwarf | nsubj |
| 13 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dwarf | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dwarf | amod |
| 15 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ugly | punct |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ugly | amod |
| 18 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the King | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | King's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dwarf | that | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, he wanted her wed to that horrid dwarf, the King's own son, innit mate
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wed | wed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dwarf | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dwarf | det |
| 9 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwarf | amod |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 son | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwarf | vocative |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mate | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mate | compound |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwarf | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | her wed | to that horrid dwarf and innit mate | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wed=Theme to dwarf=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the King's son, that horrid dwarf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 son | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dwarf | punct |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dwarf | det |
| 9 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwarf | amod |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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