Test 8 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess…
Where did Melinette whizz him off to, proper quick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Melinette · What happens: whizz off · To what, where: him
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1881 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 18: the Enchanter's golden feast, fireworks and chariot ride to the King» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 whizz | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whizz | aux |
| 3 | Melinette | Melinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 whizz | nsubj |
| 4 | whizz | whizz | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whizz | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 whizz | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 quick | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 quick | amod |
| 10 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 whizz | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 whizz | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whizz off | past · do-support | Melinette | him = he | to proper quick | 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
back up to her castle in the sky, proper quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 quick | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 castle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 up | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 up | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 quick | amod |
| 11 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
to a hidden lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 lake | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lake | det |
| 3 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lake | amod |
| 4 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
up the big tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 tower | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tower | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tower | amod |
| 4 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
her castle in the air
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 castle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 castle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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