Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…

Who got told to take it steady on the way back?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell, take · To what, where: it, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 told	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 take	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
11	back	back	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		it		the way		steady property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on way=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

The Prince's attendants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 attendants	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Prince	case
4	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The fairy's chariot driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driver	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fairy	case
4	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driver	compound
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The Prince's old servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 servants	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Prince	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 servants	amod
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Prince's attendants, who had been told to wait at the fountain for the fairy's return

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 attendants	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Prince	case
4	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 told	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 attendants	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wait	mark
11	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 fountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fountain	det
14	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wait	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 return	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairy	det
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 fairy	case
19	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the Prince's attendants			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince's attendants not said here		the fountain	for the fairy's return	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fountain=Location
3	return		the fairy				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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