Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…
why did the ladies reckon he'd fallen in love?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ladies, he · What happens: reckon, fall · To what, where: love
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 reckon | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reckon | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ladies | det |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fallen | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fallen | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fallen | aux |
| 8 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fallen | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the ladies | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | he | love | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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
he was dreamy and gone, obviously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dreamy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreamy | cop |
| 3 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gone | cc |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dreamy | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 obviously | punct |
| 7 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 3 dreamy | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | dreamy, obviously property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
he wrote a poem, obviously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 poem | det |
| 4 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 obviously | punct |
| 6 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 2 wrote | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | he | a poem | obviously property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |
Option 3
he was bored, obviously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bored | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bored | cop |
| 3 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bored | punct |
| 5 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 3 bored | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | bored, obviously property | tree rules |
Option 4
he kept sighing at the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sigh | gerund | he not said here | the sky | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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