Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…
Wait, the bud was sweet and then bitter? Total fail, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bud, Total fail · What happens: wait, be, innit
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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
Sentence 1: Wait, the bud was sweet and then bitter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sweet | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bud | det |
| 4 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweet | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sweet | cop |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bitter | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bitter | advmod |
| 9 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sweet | conj |
| 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 | is | past | the bud | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the bud not said here | then | 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.
Sentence 2: Total fail, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fail | amod |
| 2 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 innit | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fail | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | infinitive | Total fail | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, sweet first, then bitter as gall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sweet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweet | punct |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sweet | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bitter | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 bitter | advmod |
| 7 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sweet | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 gall | case |
| 9 | gall | gall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bitter | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, sour first, then sweet as honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | sour | soar | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sour | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweet | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sweet | advmod |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sour | parataxis |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 honey | case |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweet | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | imperative | you not said here | first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it was sweet at first, then went bitter as gall on the tongue, innit
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sweet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sweet | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweet | cop |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 sweet | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweet | conj |
| 11 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 went | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 gall | case |
| 13 | gall | gall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 tongue | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tongue | det |
| 16 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweet | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the tongue | then | as gall; bitter property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tongue=Location |
Option 4
Yeah, sweet first, then bitter as gall, proper nasty stuff that was
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sweet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweet | punct |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sweet | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bitter | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 bitter | advmod |
| 7 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sweet | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 gall | case |
| 9 | gall | gall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bitter | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stuff | punct |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stuff | amod |
| 12 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stuff | amod |
| 13 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sweet | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stuff | acl:relcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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