Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

Who was the monster that wanted to eat young girls, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monster · What happens: be, want, eat, innit · To what, where: monster, young girls

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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	4 monster	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 monster	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monster	det
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 monster	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girls	amod
10	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eat	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 monster	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the monster	tree rules
2	want	past	the monster		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the monster not said here	young girls	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
4	innit	infinitive	the monster not said here		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

Bragorn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bragorn	Bragorn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Locrinos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Locrinos	Locrinos	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The cruel monster who lived beside the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monster	det
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 monster	amod
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 monster	acl:relcl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the cruel monster			the river			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=Location

Option 4

Morgrim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Morgrim	Morgrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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