Test 10 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is…
Was he spying on the wicked King's war stuff, like proper dodgy?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: spy · To what, where: war stuff
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1894 «Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is cast out, gets a magic ring, and spies on the wicked King» 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 spying | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spying | nsubj |
| 3 | spying | spy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 stuff | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 King | amod |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stuff | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuff | compound |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dodgy | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 dodgy | case |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dodgy | amod |
| 14 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spying | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 spying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past · progressive | he | the wicked King's war stuff | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Nah, he just watched from the trees and did nothing, boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 watched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 watched | advmod |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 watched | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 did | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boring | punct |
| 13 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 watched | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | he | the trees | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | he not said here | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
Option 2
Yeah, he found out their plans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 found | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 found | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 plans | nmod:poss |
| 7 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | he | their plans | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Topic | ||||
| 2 | plan | their = they | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he sussed out all their schemes and told the people, sorted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sussed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sussed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sussed | nsubj |
| 4 | sussed | sus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sussed | compound:prt |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 schemes | det:predet |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 schemes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | schemes | scheme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sussed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sussed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorted | punct |
| 14 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sussed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sus out | past | he | their schemes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | he not said here | the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sort | participle | he not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scheme | their = they | nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he sussed out all their schemes, sorted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sussed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sussed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sussed | nsubj |
| 4 | sussed | sus | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sussed | compound:prt |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 schemes | det:predet |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 schemes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | schemes | scheme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sussed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorted | punct |
| 10 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 schemes | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sus out | past | he | their schemes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sort | participle | their schemes not said here | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scheme | their = they | nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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