Test 6 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

Was the stranger on the brook the Prince, or some random bloke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: stranger, brook

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stranger	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 brook	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brook	det
6	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stranger	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brook	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bloke	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bloke	cc
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 bloke	det
12	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bloke	amod
13	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stranger	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stranger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stranger or some random bloke		the brook			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 · ← Mova's choice

A random farmer boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Prince Featherhead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Featherhead	compound
2	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Prince Featherhead, the enchanted one from the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Featherhead	compound
2	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Featherhead	appos
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Some passing merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 merchant	det
2	passing	passing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchant	amod
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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