Test 2 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

bruv, Grumedan's frogs sang that rubbish opera for five whole hours, proper grim

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frogs · What happens: sing · To what, where: bruv

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct
3	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 frogs	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Grumedan	case
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sang	nsubj
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 opera	mark
8	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opera	compound
9	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 hours	case
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hours	nummod
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hours	amod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sang	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sang	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grim	amod
16	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Grumedan's frogs	bruv			hour		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location opera=Theme

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

did the Princess actually enjoy the frogs' opera or was she just being polite about it all?

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 enjoy	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 enjoy	advmod
5	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frogs	det
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 opera	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 frogs	case
9	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enjoy	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 polite	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 polite	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 polite	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 polite	advmod
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 polite	cop
15	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 enjoy	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 polite	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	enjoy	present	the Princess	the frogs's opera	actually property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opera=Stimulus
3	is	past	Princess		about opera; polite property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

what did the frogs do in the end?

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 frogs	det
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	?	?	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	do	present	the frogs				in the end		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

who wrote the frogs' rubbish opera?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frogs	det
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 opera	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 frogs	case
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opera	compound
7	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past		the frogs's rubbish opera					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opera=Theme

Option 4

what did the frogs do in the end once the five hours were finally over, bruv?

The tree, 16 words

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 frogs	det
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	15 over	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hours	det
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hours	nummod
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 over	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 over	cop
14	finally	finally	ADV	_	15 over	advmod
15	over	over	ADV	_	17 bruv	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 over	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		in the end		tree rules
2	do	present	the frogs			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the five hours		finally, over property	tree rules

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