Test 8 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King ma…
Then they got hitched, and the whole kingdom was shook, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole kingdom · What happens: hitch, be · To what, where: they
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hitched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hitched | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hitched | aux:pass |
| 4 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shook | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kingdom | amod |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shook | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shook | cop |
| 11 | shook | shook | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hitched | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
| 13 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 hitched | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hitched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hitch | past · passive | they | then | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the whole kingdom | shook property | 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
Nah, nobody cared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 cared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 cared | nsubj |
| 4 | cared | care | 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 | care | past | nobody | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yeah, bit surprised
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 surprised | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surprised | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, everyone was gobsmacked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 gobsmacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 gobsmacked | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gobsmacked | aux:pass |
| 5 | gobsmacked | gobsmack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobsmack | past · passive | everyone | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, people were kind of bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bored | case |
| 7 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | people | kind | of bored | 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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