Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…
Was the hag really going to be her servant boss?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hag · What happens: go, be · To what, where: servant boss
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hag | det |
| 3 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 boss | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 boss | cop |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 boss | nmod:poss |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boss | compound |
| 10 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the hag | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the hag not said here | hag's servant boss | 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
Yeah, she wanted free help from Celandine, no cap, for the whole winter
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 help | amod |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Celandine | case |
| 8 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 cap | det |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Celandine | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 winter | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 winter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 winter | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 winter | amod |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | free help | Celandine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she wanted free help, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 help | amod |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cap | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 cap | det |
| 9 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | free help and no cap | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she wanted free food, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 food | amod |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cap | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 cap | det |
| 9 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | free food and no cap | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, she wanted to be her friend and share the cottage with her, no cap
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 friend | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 friend | cop |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 share | cc |
| 10 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cottage | det |
| 12 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 share | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 share | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cap | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 cap | det |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | no cap | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | no cap not said here | her friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | share | present | she not said here | the cottage | with friend | tree rules |
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