Test 6 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess…
The Fairy had goblins and tigers and stuff, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: have · To what, where: goblins
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tigers | cc |
| 6 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 goblins | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stuff | cc |
| 8 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goblins | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 had | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Fairy | goblins and tigers and stuff | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblin=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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she called up goblins with her wand and threatened tigers and a pack of bears
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 called | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wand | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goblins | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tigers | cc |
| 11 | threatened | threatened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tigers | amod |
| 12 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wand | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pack | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pack | det |
| 15 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wand | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bears | case |
| 17 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pack | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert | past | she | goblins with her wand and threatened tigers and a pack of bears | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, she called up goblins and threatened tigers and sent wolves after him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 called | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tigers | cc |
| 8 | threatened | threatened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tigers | amod |
| 9 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 goblins | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 12 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert | past | she | goblins and threatened tigers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send | past | she not said here | wolves | after him = he | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she called up goblins and summoned bears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 called | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bears | cc |
| 8 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bears | amod |
| 9 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 goblins | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert | past | she | goblins and summoned bears | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | summon | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she called up goblins and threatened tigers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 called | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tigers | cc |
| 8 | threatened | threatened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tigers | amod |
| 9 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 goblins | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert | past | she | goblins and threatened tigers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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