Test 8 · ★ · Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her l…
wait, the princess is ugly and nobody wants her, that's harsh, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, princess, nobody, that · What happens: wait, be, want · To what, where: princess
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1652 «Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her lost husband, helped by the Sun, the Moon and the Wind» 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 | _ | 6 ugly | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ugly | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ugly | cop |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 wait | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wants | cc |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 wants | nsubj |
| 9 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ugly | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wants | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 harsh | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 harsh | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 harsh | cop |
| 14 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 wait | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 harsh | punct |
| 16 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 wait | discourse |
| 17 | ? | ? | 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 | present | the princess | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | nobody | princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | harsh property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
nah, she's fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | fine property | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, that's sad for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sad | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | cop |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 sad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | for everyone; sad property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, that's rough for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 rough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rough | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 rough | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rough | cop |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rough | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | for her = she; rough 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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