Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…
Lol, the town girls were mint before, right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town girls · What happens: be · To what, where: mint
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 mint | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girls | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girls | compound |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mint | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mint | cop |
| 7 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 mint | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 before | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 mint | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mint | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the town girls | mint | before property | 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
Nah, they were boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 boring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boring | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boring | cop |
| 5 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | boring property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, they got loud after he saw it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | loud property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | past | he | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, they got boring once he saw the picture
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 5 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | boring, once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | past | he | the picture | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they stayed fun the whole time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | they | fun | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fun=Location |
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