Test 9 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…
fr, what happened to her at the castle window?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: happen · To what, where: her, castle window
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 window | compound |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | fr | her = she | the castle window | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at window=Location |
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
she turned to ash
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 ash | mark |
| 4 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | she | ash | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
she turned into a dove
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 dove | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dove | det |
| 5 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | she | a dove | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into dove=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
she turned to flint
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 flint | mark |
| 4 | flint | flint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flint | to-infinitive | she not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
she turned into a large grey flint stone
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 7 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | compound |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | she | a large grey flint stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
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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