Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princes…
Wait, the princess didn't wanna give up her hair, did she?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, princess · What happens: wait, not wanna, give up, do · To what, where: hair
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1646 «Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princess's hair and frees the prince» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanna | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanna | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanna | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wanna | advmod |
| 7 | wanna | wanna | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanna | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 give | compound:prt |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 15 | ? | ? | 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 | not wanna | past · do-support | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give up | infinitive | the princess not said here | princess's hair | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Source | ||||
| 4 | do | past | princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Yeah, she gave it right away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | she | it | away property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she was dead proud of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 proud | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proud | amod |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proud | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | of it; proud property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, she was too busy then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 busy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 busy | advmod |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 busy | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | then | busy property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she was dead proud of it and wouldn't let anyone touch it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 proud | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proud | amod |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proud | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 let | advmod |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proud | conj |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 touch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | of it; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | would | she not said here | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | touch | infinitive | anyone not said here | it | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
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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