Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…
What did the Emperor try to give her as a reward, like the gold slipper?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Emperor · What happens: do, try, give · To what, where: her
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 try | nsubj |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 reward | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 reward | det |
| 11 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slipper | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 slipper | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 slipper | det |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slipper | compound |
| 16 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | try | present | the Emperor | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | her = she | as a reward; like the gold slipper | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 · ← Mova's choice
a ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a golden chain for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chain | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chain | amod |
| 3 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a silver ring for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ring | amod |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a slipper round her neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 slipper | det |
| 2 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 neck | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slipper | nmod |
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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