Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Fairy's Daughter: the bird-…
Hang on, the dove turned into an egg, how mad is that?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, dove, that · What happens: hang on, turn, be · To what, where: egg
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1711 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Fairy's Daughter: the bird-girl is freed and the wicked Fairy drowns» 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 | Hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Hang | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dove | det |
| 5 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hang | parataxis |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 egg | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 egg | det |
| 9 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mad | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 mad | advmod |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | conj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mad | cop |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 mad | nsubj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang on | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the dove | a egg | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into egg=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | mad property | 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
Yeah, dead weird, a proper magic thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 weird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 weird | punct |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weird | advmod |
| 4 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 weird | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thing | compound |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weird | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Dead mad, yeah, and it was a sneaky trick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mad | amod |
| 2 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mad | punct |
| 4 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 mad | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trick | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trick | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trick | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trick | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trick | det |
| 10 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trick | amod |
| 11 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mad | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a sneaky trick | tree rules |
Option 3
Dead mad, yeah, and it was a sneaky trick by the Fairy to fool the Prince
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mad | amod |
| 2 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mad | punct |
| 4 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 mad | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trick | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trick | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trick | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trick | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trick | det |
| 10 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trick | amod |
| 11 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mad | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Fairy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fairy | det |
| 14 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trick | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fool | mark |
| 16 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trick | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fool | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a sneaky trick | by the Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fool | to-infinitive | the Prince | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
Option 4
Nah, it wasn't mad at all, it was just a normal egg that rolled off a nest
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 mad | advmod |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 mad | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 egg | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 egg | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 egg | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 egg | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 14 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 egg | amod |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mad | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 rolled | nsubj |
| 17 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 egg | acl:relcl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 rolled | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nest | det |
| 20 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rolled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | it | all | mad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | it | a normal egg | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | roll off | past | a normal egg | a nest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
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