Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…
What did the Duchess threaten to do, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Duchess · What happens: threaten, do, innit
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 threaten | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 threaten | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Duchess | det |
| 4 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 threaten | nsubj |
| 5 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 threaten | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 threaten | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 threaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · do-support | the Duchess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Duchess not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | the Duchess 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
take all the gold and go back to her castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 gold | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gold | det |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 take | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 take | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 castle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | all gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | infinitive | you not said here | to her castle result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
Option 2
leave now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | now | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
return to her castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 castle | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 castle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 return | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
go back to her castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 castle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | to her castle result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
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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