Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…
Did the Emperor threaten the Court, like what if she didn't show up?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Emperor, she · What happens: threaten, not show up · To what, where: Court
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threaten | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threaten | nsubj |
| 4 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Court | det |
| 6 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threaten | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 threaten | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 show | advmod |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 what | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 show | compound:prt |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 threaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past · do-support | the Emperor | the Court | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus court=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not show up a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | she | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
yes, he did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
he threatened a punishment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threatened | nsubj |
| 2 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 punishment | det |
| 4 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threatened | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past | he | a punishment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus punishment=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
trampling after supper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 supper | case |
| 3 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 trampling | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
he sent for the chaplain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 chaplain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chaplain | det |
| 5 | chaplain | chaplain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | he | for the chaplain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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