Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…
Did Gorgonzola just pop in the Palace and nick the baby's heart?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, nick · To what, where: Gorgonzola, Palace, heart
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1890 «Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey shows the Prince a rock of gold, and the Princess Sabella is found to have no heart» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Gorgonzola | Gorgonzola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 pop | advmod |
| 4 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Palace | det |
| 7 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nick | cc |
| 9 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Did | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 baby | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nick | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Gorgonzola | the Palace | pop obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gorgonzola=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | nick | infinitive | the baby's heart | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she sneaked in as a black cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sneaked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneaked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sneaked | nsubj |
| 4 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sneaked | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 cat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cat | amod |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sneaked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak in | past | she | as a black cat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she sneaked in as a black cat, mate, and took the heart from the baby
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sneaked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneaked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sneaked | nsubj |
| 4 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sneaked | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 cat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cat | amod |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sneaked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cat | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sneaked | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 baby | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 baby | det |
| 19 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak in | past | she | as a black cat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | she not said here | the heart | the baby | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent heart=Theme from baby=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Yeah, she sneaked in as a black cat and nicked it right off the cot
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sneaked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneaked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sneaked | nsubj |
| 4 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sneaked | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 cat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cat | amod |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sneaked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nicked | cc |
| 11 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sneaked | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nicked | obj |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 nicked | advmod |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cot | det |
| 16 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak in | past | she | as a black cat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nick | past | she not said here | cat | the cot | right property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme off cot=Source |
Option 4
Yeah, she came in as a white owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 owl | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 owl | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 owl | amod |
| 9 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | she | as a white owl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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