Test 8 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…
What did the fairies say the winner had to show?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairies, winner · What happens: do, say, have, show · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1875 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch falls into the sea and the fairies choose a new Queen» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairies | det |
| 4 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 winner | det |
| 7 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 show | mark |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the fairies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the winner | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | the winner not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The greatest wonder going
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wonder | det |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 wonder | amod |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wonder | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the greatest wonder not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A baby girl with a pink rose and a silver ribbon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rose | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rose | det |
| 6 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rose | amod |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ribbon | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ribbon | det |
| 10 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ribbon | amod |
| 11 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The fairest gift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gift | det |
| 2 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 gift | amod |
| 3 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The greatest wonder going that could be shown in the kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wonder | det |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 wonder | amod |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wonder | acl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 shown | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shown | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shown | aux:pass |
| 8 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wonder | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kingdom | det |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the greatest wonder not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | show | could · passive | the greatest wonder | in the kingdom | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in kingdom=Topic |
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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