Test 3 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…

Wait, what did she swap the twins for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, swap · To what, where: twins

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 swap	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 swap	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swap	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swap	nsubj
6	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 twins	det
8	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swap	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	6 swap	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swap	past · do-support	she	the twins					tree rules

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

Two little kittens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kittens	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kittens	amod
3	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Two little puppies from the yard, swapped in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 puppies	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puppies	amod
3	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 yard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 yard	det
6	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puppies	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swapped	punct
8	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 puppies	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	participle		Two little puppies from the yard not said here		the dark			vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Two little puppies she'd nicked from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 puppies	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puppies	amod
3	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nicked	nsubj:pass
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nicked	nsubj
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nicked	aux
6	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · perfect · passive		Two little puppies		the kitchen			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from kitchen=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two little puppies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 puppies	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puppies	amod
3	puppies	puppy	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1802-pg641-part53/t3/