Test 13 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…
Wicked, did the herbs actually work on the sailors?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wicked herbs · What happens: work
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1888 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up for the Ice Mountain quest, is wrecked, and frees a crew of enchanted sailors» 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 herbs | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 herbs | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 herbs | det |
| 5 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 work | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 work | advmod |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sailors | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sailors | det |
| 10 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 work | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | the Wicked herbs | on the sailors; actually property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on sailor=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they got totally better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | good, totally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Nah, they got worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Yeah, they got better again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | again | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, they got a bit better but the wood still clung to some of their limbs
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 better | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 clung | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clung | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 clung | advmod |
| 12 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 some | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 clung | obl:agent |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 limbs | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 some | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | they | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cling | participle · passive | some | the wood | still | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
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