Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…
what did the Queen tell everyone about her daughter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: tell · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 tell | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the Queen | everyone | about Queen's daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient what=Topic |
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
she was a horrible child who had been cursed by an old fairy
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 | 5 child | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 child | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cursed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 cursed | aux:pass |
| 9 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 child | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fairy | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fairy | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fairy | amod |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cursed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a horrible child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curse | past · perfect · passive | a old fairy | a horrible child | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 2
she was born ugly and no one could ever love her, honestly
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 | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 born | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 love | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 love | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 love | aux |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 love | advmod |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 born | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 love | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 honestly | punct |
| 13 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 3 born | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | she | honestly, ugly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | could | no one | her = she | ever | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 3
she was weird and lacked any charm
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 | 3 weird | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 weird | cop |
| 3 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lacked | cc |
| 5 | lacked | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 weird | conj |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 charm | det |
| 7 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lacked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | weird property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lack | past | she not said here | any charm | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
she was ugly and impossible to love
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 | 3 ugly | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ugly | cop |
| 3 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 impossible | cc |
| 5 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ugly | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 love | mark |
| 7 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 impossible | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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