Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 4: the Blue Bird brings g…
how long did the Princess sit in that tower, fr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: tower
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1867 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 4: the Blue Bird brings gifts, the Queen hunts for proof, and a spy is set to watch Fiordelisa» 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | nsubj |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tower | det |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fr | punct |
| 11 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tower | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit | present | the Princess | that tower and fr | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location |
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
Like two whole years, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bro | punct |
| 6 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Like seven whole years, bro, she was stuck up there with just the bird for company
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bro | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 6 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuck | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stuck | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stuck | aux:pass |
| 10 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bro | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 stuck | compound:prt |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stuck | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bird | case |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 bird | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 company | case |
| 18 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up | past · passive | she | there | with the bird; for company | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bird=Theme |
Option 3
Like three whole years, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bro | punct |
| 6 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Like seven whole years, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bro | punct |
| 6 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | conj |
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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