Test 4 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…
Was that mouse well sly, dancing about for scraps?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dance
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Was | was | ADP | _ | 3 mouse | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mouse | det |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dancing | obl |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dancing | advmod |
| 5 | sly | sly | ADV | _ | 7 dancing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dancing | punct |
| 7 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 dancing | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 scraps | case |
| 10 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dancing | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dancing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | gerund | was that mouse; for scraps; about, sly, well property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, it danced for a crumb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 danced | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 crumb | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crumb | det |
| 7 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | it | for a crumb | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it hopped for the bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hopped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hopped | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hopped | nsubj |
| 4 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bread | det |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hopped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | it | for the bread | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, proper sly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 sly | advmod |
| 4 | sly | sly | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it danced for the Queen's last pea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 danced | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 pea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pea | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pea | amod |
| 10 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | it | for the Queen's last pea | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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