Test 7 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…

How did Helena end up with a load of feathers sorted by morning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helena · What happens: end up, sort · To what, where: feathers

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1910 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a kind Fairy helps Helena sort the feathers and empty the pond, and her cruel stepmother plans something worse» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
3	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 load	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 load	det
8	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 load	nmod
11	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 feathers	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 morning	case
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sorted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past · do-support	Helena					with a load of feathers	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sort	participle		feathers not said here			morning		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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

The Fairy did it while she slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 slept	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slept	nsubj
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Fairy	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	sleep	past	Fairy						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Helena woke early and found a fairy had sorted them all for her in the night like magic

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 woke	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorted	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sorted	aux
9	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 found	ccomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sorted	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sorted	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorted	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 magic	case
18	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	Helena			early property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	Helena not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sort	past · perfect · passive		a fairy	night	for Helena	tree rules

Option 3

A kind fairy sorted them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fairy	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fairy	amod
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorted	nsubj
4	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sorted	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	past	a kind fairy	them = they					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

The fairy came in the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the fairy				night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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