Test 8 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

Did the Princess just sit around, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: sit around

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sit	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sit	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit around	past · do-support	the Princess					around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme

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

She sat at her window and called the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 window	nmod:poss
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 called	cc
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	She			her window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	call	past	She not said here		the bird				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient

Option 2

She slept a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	She	a lot					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 3

She walked the halls and fed the palace doves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 halls	det
4	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fed	cc
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doves	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doves	compound
9	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	She	the halls					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory
2	feed	past	She not said here	the palace doves					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient

Option 4

She stayed inside and wrote letters all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wrote	cc
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She				day	inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	past	She not said here	letters					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

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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