Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

Had Sylvia been to the Fairy's palace before?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sylvia · What happens: have, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1878 «Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each» 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	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nsubj
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 palace	cop
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Fairy	case
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 palace	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	Sylvia					to the Fairy's palace	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, not once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

yeah, twice, and it was dead boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 twice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 boring	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boring	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boring	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boring	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boring	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boring	amod
9	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					boring, twice property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, never, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 mate	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, loads, it's proper lush there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lush	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loads	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lush	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lush	cop
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lush	amod
8	lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lush	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	loads	proper lush		there			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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