Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…
Did the Fairy really send him that picture?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: send · To what, where: picture, him
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1884 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is scorned and meets a grumpy old hag» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 send | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 send | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 send | advmod |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 send | obj |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 picture | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 send | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 send | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · do-support | the Fairy | that picture | him = he | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination picture=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
Nah, the picture was from some town girl who fancied him, not the Fairy at all
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | cop |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | compound |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fancied | nsubj |
| 11 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fancied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fairy | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 Fairy | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fairy | det |
| 16 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 Fairy | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the picture | from some town girl and the Fairy at all | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fancy | past | some town girl and the Fairy at all | him = he | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the picture was from the Fairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 Fairy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fairy | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Fairy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Fairy | cop |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Fairy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the picture | from the Fairy | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, the card was from the Fairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 Fairy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fairy | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 card | det |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Fairy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Fairy | cop |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Fairy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the card | from the Fairy | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, the picture was from the Fairy, delivered by a mysterious messenger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 Fairy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fairy | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Fairy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Fairy | cop |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Fairy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 delivered | punct |
| 10 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Fairy | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 messenger | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 messenger | det |
| 13 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 messenger | amod |
| 14 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delivered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the picture | from the Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deliver | participle | the Fairy not said here | by a mysterious messenger | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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