Test 9 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

Did Celandine fancy the Prince at first, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Celandine · What happens: fancy · To what, where: Prince

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fancy	aux
2	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fancy	nsubj
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fancy	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 fancy	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	3 fancy	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past · do-support	Celandine	the Prince					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=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 · ← Mova's choice

She said she liked a rich Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Prince	amod
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	past	she	a rich Prince					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

She said she fancied the stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fancy	past	she	the stranger					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She said she loved a fickle Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
6	fickle	fickle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Prince	amod
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	past	she	a fickle Prince					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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