Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…
so what did the Princess dread losing most?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess dread · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: Princess dread, most
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dread | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dread | compound |
| 6 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 dread | acl |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 losing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Princess dread | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dread=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | the Princess dread not said here | most | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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
those amusing dreams of Narcissus and his silly jokes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 dreams | det |
| 2 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dreams | amod |
| 3 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Narcissus | case |
| 5 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dreams | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jokes | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 jokes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jokes | amod |
| 9 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Narcissus | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | Narcissus and his silly jokes | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 2 | joke | his = he | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
her nurse and her toys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 toys | cc |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 toys | nmod:poss |
| 5 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nurse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
those amusing dreams of Narcissus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 dreams | det |
| 2 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dreams | amod |
| 3 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Narcissus | case |
| 5 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dreams | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | Narcissus | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
the gentle songs of the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 songs | det |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 songs | amod |
| 3 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 songs | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing | the river | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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