Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daug…

Wicked, what did the swan do when the Princess stroked it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked, Princess · What happens: do, stroke · To what, where: swan

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» 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	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swan	det
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 stroked	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stroked	nsubj
11	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stroked	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the swan	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Eventuality
2	do	present	Wicked		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stroke	past	the Princess	swan	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

it screamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 screamed	nsubj
2	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	it						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it bit her hand and flew away over the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flew	cc
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	it	her hand					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	fly away	past				the river		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Location

Option 3

it hissed hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hissed	nsubj
2	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 hissed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	it					hard property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

it flew off and sank into the cold water quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sank	cc
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sank	obl
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	it					quickly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sink	past				the cold water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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