Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

Could Zizi save Titty from getting burned?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zizi · What happens: save, burn · To what, where: Titty

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 save	aux
2	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 save	nsubj
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Titty	titty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 save	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 burned	mark
6	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 burned	aux:pass
7	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 save	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	could	Zizi	Titty					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent titty=Theme
2	burn	gerund · passive	Zizi not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»

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

she got her pardon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pardon	nmod:poss
4	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	her pardon					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pardon=Stimulus
2	pardon		her = she						nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

she was not able

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 able	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 able	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 able	advmod
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	she					able property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yes she was saved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 saved	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saved	aux:pass
4	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · passive		she					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

no, Zizi could only watch from the sill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 watch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 watch	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 watch	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 watch	advmod
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sill	det
9	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	could	Zizi			the sill			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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