Test 10 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Helena, : Helena's castle is built by a…

Did the Prince ever twig it was her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, it · What happens: twig, be · To what, where: her

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1911 «Violet Fairy Book, Helena, : Helena's castle is built by a Fairy, and she wins back Prince Fickle at the feast» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 twig	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 twig	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 twig	advmod
5	twig	twig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 her	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 her	cop
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 twig	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 twig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twig	past · do-support	the Prince				ever		tree rules
2	is a	past	it	her = she					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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was buzzing, didn't have a clue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buzzing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	aux
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 have	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 buzzing	punct
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 have	advmod
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 clue	det
11	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not have	past · do-support		a clue					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he knew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	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	know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, he was sussed out at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sussed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sussed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sussed	aux:pass
5	sussed	sus	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sussed	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 sussed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sus out	past · passive		he					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he spotted her at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 spotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spotted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	nsubj
4	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	he		her = she	the door			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination

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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