Test 5 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

Was the poison cup really poison, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: poison cup

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1882 «Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: Melinette saves Potentilla from poison and traps Grumedan» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cup	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cup	det
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cup	compound
4	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poison	compound
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 poison	advmod
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 real	case
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poison	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 poison	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the poison cup					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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Frivola said she'd sort her out with one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sort	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sort	aux
7	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sort	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 sort	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sort	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Frivola						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sort out	would	Frivola	her = she				with one	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, Frivola meant to sort her out with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sort	mark
6	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 sort	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	Frivola						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sort out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Frivola not said here	Frivola				with it	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Nah, just sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was only a sleeping draught for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 draught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 draught	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 draught	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 draught	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 draught	det
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 draught	amod
8	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 draught	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a sleeping draught				for her = she	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1882-pg7277-part19/t5/