Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…
what do u call the ladies who serve the Princess?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, ladies · What happens: call, serve · To what, where: ladies, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 call | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ladies | det |
| 6 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 serve | nsubj |
| 8 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 serve | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | u | the ladies | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme lady=Result | ||||
| 2 | serve | present | the ladies | the Princess | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute |
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
handmaidens of the crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | handmaidens | handmaiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 crown | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crown | det |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 handmaidens | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
ladies-in-waiting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 waiting | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 in | punct |
| 5 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ladies | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
lady-servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 servants | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 lady | punct |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
courtiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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