Test 12 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleto…
Was the ball a proper big do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ball
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ball | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 do | det |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 do | amod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 do | amod |
| 7 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ball | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ball | a proper big do nmod | 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, he wore his silver cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wore | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cloak | amod |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | he | his silver cloak | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, he went off in his golden cloak and everyone was dancing and singing all night
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloak | amod |
| 9 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dancing | cc |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 dancing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dancing | aux |
| 13 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 singing | cc |
| 15 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 dancing | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 singing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | he | his golden cloak | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cloak=Location | ||||
| 2 | dance | past · progressive | everyone | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | everyone not said here | night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, it was a small do, just a few folk, and he went off in his old brown cloak
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 do | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 do | amod |
| 7 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | dislocated |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 folk | punct |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 folk | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 folk | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 folk | amod |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cloak | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cloak | amod |
| 21 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cloak | amod |
| 22 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a small do and a few folk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | he | his old brown cloak | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cloak=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he went off in his golden cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloak | amod |
| 9 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | he | his golden cloak | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cloak=Location |
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