Test 10 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King ma…
Her new stepsister Turritella sounds well dodgy, though
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new stepsister · What happens: sound
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1864 «The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King marries a sorrowful lady, and her ugly daughter starts trouble» 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stepsister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stepsister | amod |
| 3 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stepsister | appos |
| 5 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 sounds | advmod |
| 7 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sounds | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 though | punct |
| 9 | though | though | ADV | _ | 5 sounds | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Her new stepsister | dodgy, though, well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
Nah, she's actually not that bad, just a bit grumpy when she's hungry and tired
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 bad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bad | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 bad | advmod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bad | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | ADV | _ | 8 bad | advmod |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grumpy | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 grumpy | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grumpy | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bad | conj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 hungry | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hungry | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | cop |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grumpy | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tired | cc |
| 19 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bad | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | she | actually, bad, that property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | a bit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | she | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | she not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she's proper ugly and gets right grumpy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 ugly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ugly | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ugly | cop |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ugly | amod |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gets | cc |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ugly | conj |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 grumpy | advmod |
| 10 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | she not said here | grumpy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Yeah, she's proper ugly, moans all day and gets right grumpy with everyone
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 ugly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ugly | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ugly | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ugly | cop |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ugly | amod |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moans | punct |
| 8 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ugly | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moans | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gets | cc |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 moans | conj |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 grumpy | advmod |
| 14 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gets | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 everyone | case |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 grumpy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | moan | present | day | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | present | grumpy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, she's dead lovely and really quite pretty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 lovely | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lovely | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lovely | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lovely | amod |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 quite | cc |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 quite | advmod |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 lovely | conj |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 lovely | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | lovely, pretty property | tree rules |
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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