Test 1 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

Yo, why'd the Queen hang knives all over that fir tree, like, seriously?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: knife · To what, where: fir tree

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 knives	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knives	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 knives	nsubj
7	hang	hang	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knives	compound
8	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 why	conj
9	all	all	ADV	_	13 tree	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 tree	det
12	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knives	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
15	like	like	INTJ	_	8 knives	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
17	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	15 like	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knife		Queen			that fir tree			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

To cut the Blue Bird's wings so it could never fly back to the Princess's window again

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cut	mark
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bird	det
4	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bird	amod
5	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wings	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Bird	case
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 fly	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fly	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 fly	advmod
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cut	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 fly	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 window	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 window	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Princess	case
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	12 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	to-infinitive		the Blue Bird's wings					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wing=Product
2	not fly back	could	Bird				again	to the Princess's window result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result

Option 2

To warn the guards about a spy inside the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warn	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 spy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spy	det
7	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	nmod
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive		the guards		the palace		about a spy	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient about spy=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To make a trap that would cut any bird who dared to visit the Princess's window at night

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cut	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	aux
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trap	acl:relcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dared	nsubj
11	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bird	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 visit	mark
13	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dared	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 window	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Princess	case
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 visit	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a trap		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trap=Product
2	cut	would	a trap	any bird	night	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bird=Product
3	dare	past	any bird			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	visit	to-infinitive	any bird not said here	the Princess's window		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To cut the Blue Bird when it flew to the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cut	mark
2	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 flew	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bird	det
4	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bird	amod
5	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 flew	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	to-infinitive	Bird not said here	the Blue Bird					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bird=Product
2	fly	past	Bird					to the Princess result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to princess=Result

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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