Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…
Did Saphir and Serpentine have a happy ending, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Saphir · What happens: have · To what, where: happy ending
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1691 «Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, and the bird cures the King» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 2 | Saphir | Saphir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Serpentine | cc |
| 4 | Serpentine | Serpentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Saphir | conj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ending | det |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ending | amod |
| 8 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 have | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · do-support | Saphir and Serpentine | a happy ending | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient |
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, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, they split and everyone was sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 split | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 split | nsubj |
| 4 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sad | cc |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 sad | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sad | cop |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 split | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past | they | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | everyone | sad property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they wed and everybody lived happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wed | nsubj |
| 4 | wed | wed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lived | cc |
| 6 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wed | conj |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lived | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wed | present | they | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | live | past | everybody | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, but the Frog went back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Frog | det |
| 5 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the Frog | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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