Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

Did the princess really talk straight after being born?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, talk, bear · To what, where: princess

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 talk	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 born	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 born	aux:pass
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 talk	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the princess		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	talk	present		straight property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bear	gerund · passive			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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

Nah, she spoke like a grown man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 spoke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	she					like a grown man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was wise like an older person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wise	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wise	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	cop
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 person	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					like a older person; wise property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she was wise like an older person and spoke clear sentences at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wise	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wise	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	cop
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 person	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wise	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spoke	cc
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	conj
12	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sentences	amod
13	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spoke	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					like a older person; wise property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	she not said here	clear sentences					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, she was loud like a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loud	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 baby	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					like a baby; loud property	tree rules

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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