Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess…
Bruv, the Prince chased a ghost all day in the wood?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: chase · To what, where: ghost, wood
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1557 «Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess is turned into a grasshopper, and the Prince refuses the Fairy's offer» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bruv | appos |
| 5 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ghost | det |
| 7 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chased | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chased | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | Bruv | a ghost | the wood | day | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ghost=Theme in wood=Trajectory |
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
Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept running off through the trees until dark
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 phantom | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 phantom | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 phantom | det |
| 4 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 phantom | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 kept | xcomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 running | compound:prt |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 running | obl |
| 16 | until | until | ADP | _ | 17 dark | case |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a phantom of her | until dark | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run off | gerund | a phantom of her not said here | the trees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory |
Option 2
Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept hiding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 phantom | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 phantom | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 phantom | det |
| 4 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 phantom | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 phantom | acl:relcl |
| 11 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 kept | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | phantom | a phantom of her not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | a phantom of her not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept running off and laughing at him all day long
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 phantom | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 phantom | det |
| 4 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeah | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 phantom | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 kept | xcomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 running | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laughing | cc |
| 14 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 running | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laughing | obl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughing | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 kept | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | phantom | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run off | gerund | phantom not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | phantom not said here | day | at him = he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept running off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 phantom | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 phantom | det |
| 4 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeah | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 phantom | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 kept | xcomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 running | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | phantom | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run off | gerund | phantom not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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