Test 11 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…
Oi, did the old woman calm down when she got the gold?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, woman · What happens: calm down, get · To what, where: gold
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 calm | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 calm | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calm | nsubj |
| 7 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 calm | compound:prt |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 calm | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gold | det |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 calm | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm down | past · do-support | Oi | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | woman | the gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus |
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
Still angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 angry | advmod |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Calmed down a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calmed | calm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Calmed | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calmed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm down | participle | a bit | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Calmed down completely and gave everyone a big hug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calmed | calm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gave | advcl |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Calmed | compound:prt |
| 3 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 1 Calmed | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 gave | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hug | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hug | amod |
| 9 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm down | participle | completely property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | a big hug | everyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient hug=Theme |
Option 4
Stayed quite cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 cross | advmod |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | cross | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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