Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

Wait, what did the Queen tell the King?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Queen · What happens: wait, tell · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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	_	7 tell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	?	?	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	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the Queen		the King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient king=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Graciosa is dead, no big loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dead	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loss	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 loss	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loss	amod
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Graciosa					dead property	tree rules

Option 2

Graciosa is gone, who cares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gone	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	cop
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cares	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cares	nsubj
6	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Graciosa					gone property	tree rules
2	care	present							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Graciosa ran off, good riddance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 riddance	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 riddance	amod
6	riddance	riddance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	Graciosa	good riddance					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Dead, no loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loss	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 loss	det
4	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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