Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

wait, why did the Princess never laugh before, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: wait, not laugh · To what, where: fam

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laugh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 laugh	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laugh	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 laugh	advmod
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
9	before	before	ADV	_	8 laugh	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not laugh	past · do-support	the Princess	fam				before property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

she was dead serious, no smiles

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	4 serious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 serious	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 serious	amod
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smiles	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 smiles	det
7	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 serious	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					serious property	tree rules

Option 2

she just hated jokes, mate

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	3 hated	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 hated	advmod
3	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hated	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hated	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	she	jokes				mate vocative	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she was dead serious the whole time, never any smiles at all

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	4 serious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 serious	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 serious	amod
4	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serious	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smiles	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 smiles	advmod
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 smiles	det
11	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 serious	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 smiles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she				time	serious property	tree rules

Option 4

she was proper grumpy all day

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	4 grumpy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grumpy	cop
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 grumpy	advmod
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grumpy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she				day	grumpy, properly property	tree rules

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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