Test 11 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc…
So the Queen got proper stroppy after the trip, yeah? What was she like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: get, be
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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
Sentence 1: So the Queen got proper stroppy after the trip, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 stroppy | advmod |
| 6 | stroppy | stroppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 trip | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trip | det |
| 9 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stroppy | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Queen | stroppy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
Sentence 2: What was she like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 like | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Queen | like property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
bitter and cruel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cruel | cc |
| 3 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 bitter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
haughty and stubborn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stubborn | cc |
| 3 | stubborn | stubborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 haughty | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
rude and loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 loud | cc |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 rude | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
haughty and stubborn, and she would not listen to anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stubborn | cc |
| 3 | stubborn | stubborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 haughty | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 listen | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 listen | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 listen | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 listen | advmod |
| 9 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 haughty | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 listen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | would | she | to anyone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to anyone=Theme |
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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