Test 7 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…
Was Featherhead still fit after the enchantment moved to him?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: enchantment · What happens: be, fit, move · To what, where: Featherhead, him
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | 2 Featherhead | cop |
| 2 | Featherhead | featherhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fit | obl |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 fit | advmod |
| 4 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 moved | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 enchantment | det |
| 7 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fit | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moved | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Featherhead | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fit | present | still | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | move | past | the enchantment | him = he | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
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
He had got uglier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | uglier | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | He | ugly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
He stayed quite handsome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 handsome | advmod |
| 4 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stayed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | He | handsome property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He had lost his looks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | He | his looks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Eventuality |
Option 4
Nah, he had lost his looks completely to the spell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 looks | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 looks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 7 looks | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 spell | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spell | det |
| 11 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | he | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | present | to the spell; completely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to spell=Theme |
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