Test 11 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…
Was Grannonia scared at all, babe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: all
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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 scared | cop |
| 2 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | compound |
| 3 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 scared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 babe | punct |
| 7 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 scared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | scared property | tree rules |
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
yes, she fled the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 fled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | she | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Initial_Location |
Option 2
no, she stood her ground and even laughed at the snake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ground | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 laughed | advmod |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 snake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snake | det |
| 12 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | she | her ground | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | she not said here | at the snake | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yes, she was terrified but she tried to stay brave and calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 terrified | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 terrified | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | cop |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stay | mark |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stay | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 calm | cc |
| 13 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 terrified | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | past | she | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | brave property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | she not said here | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
no, she stood her ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 stood | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ground | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | she | her ground | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus |
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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