Test 6 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's…
Did the wicked sister get off easy or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wicked sister · What happens: get off
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 get | compound:prt |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 easy | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past · do-support | the wicked sister | easy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Yeah, she was sent to the mines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mines | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mines | det |
| 8 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | she | the mines | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mine=Destination |
Option 2
Nah, a spiky cart, four horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 cart | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cart | det |
| 4 | spiky | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cart | amod |
| 5 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horses | punct |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 horses | nummod |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cart | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, a spiky barrel, six horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 barrel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 barrel | det |
| 4 | spiky | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 barrel | amod |
| 5 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horses | punct |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 horses | nummod |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 barrel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, she was dragged through the streets in a cart of thorns by ten horses
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 dragged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragged | aux:pass |
| 5 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 streets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 streets | det |
| 8 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragged | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cart | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cart | det |
| 11 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 thorns | case |
| 13 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cart | nmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 horses | case |
| 15 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 horses | nummod |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · passive | ten horses | she | the streets | in a cart of thorns | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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