Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…
Did the lovers on the island just get hitched and be happy, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hitch, be, innit · To what, where: lovers
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1697 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the Prince is wrecked and finds a land of doomed lovers» 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 | 9 hitched | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lovers | det |
| 3 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hitched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lovers | nmod |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 hitched | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hitched | aux:pass |
| 9 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 happy | cop |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hitched | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 14 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hitched | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 hitched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hitch | past · passive · do-support | the lovers on the island | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | 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
Yeah, they wed
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 |
| # | 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 |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, they were walking to a sad end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 walking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 end | amod |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | they | to a sad end | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result |
Option 3
Yeah, they lived happily ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 lived | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | they | ever | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, they got married and stayed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 married | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stayed | cc |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | they | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stay | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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