Test 2 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Prince Désiré and Princess Zizi, part 6…
ok but why did the canaries keep yelling about thirst, was that a joke
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: canaries · What happens: keep, yell, be · To what, where: joke
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1564 «Orange Fairy Book, Prince Désiré and Princess Zizi, part 61: the last orange holds a thirsty canary, then Titty comes to the well» 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 7 keep | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 keep | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 keep | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 canaries | det |
| 6 | canaries | canary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 joke | parataxis |
| 8 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 thirst | case |
| 10 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yelling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 joke | cop |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 joke | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 joke | det |
| 15 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · do-support | the canaries | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | gerund | the canaries not said here | about thirst | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thirst=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a joke | 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 · ✓ the right answer
cause they were stuck in oranges for ages and were parched
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stuck | cop |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 oranges | case |
| 6 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuck | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ages | case |
| 8 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuck | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 parched | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 parched | aux:pass |
| 11 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stuck | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cause | oranges | for ages | stuck property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | parch | past · passive | cause not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |
Option 2
cause they were stuck in oranges for ages with no water and were super parched and totally dying
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stuck | cop |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 oranges | case |
| 6 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuck | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ages | case |
| 8 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuck | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ages | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 parched | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 parched | aux:pass |
| 14 | super | super | ADV | _ | 15 parched | advmod |
| 15 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stuck | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dying | cc |
| 17 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 18 dying | advmod |
| 18 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stuck | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cause | oranges | for ages with no water | stuck property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | parch | past · passive | cause not said here | super property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | cause not said here | totally property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
cause they were stuck in the cage all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stuck | cop |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cage | det |
| 7 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cause | the cage | day | stuck property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
cause the witch made them yell for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 witch | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | yell | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fun | case |
| 8 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | the cause witch | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | yell speech: express | infinitive | them = they not said here | for fun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for fun=Recipient |
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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