Test 12 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…
Bare cute, so did the emperor actually pick Laptitza?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: pick · To what, where: Laptitza
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cute | amod |
| 2 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pick | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 pick | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pick | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emperor | det |
| 7 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 pick | advmod |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 cute | parataxis |
| 10 | Laptitza | Laptitza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pick | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cute | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past · do-support | Laptitza | actually property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laptitza=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he swung her on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 swung | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swung | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swung | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 swung | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing on | past | he | her = she | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, he picked her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 picked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past | he | her = she | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 3
Nah, he walked away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | past | he | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nah, he rode off and left her standing there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 rode | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 rode | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 standing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | past | he | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | he not said here | her standing | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standing=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | her = she | nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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