Test 12 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Helena, : Helena's castle is built by a…
Parsley liked parsley more than anything, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Parsley · What happens: like · To what, where: parsley
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | parsley | parsley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 liked | obj |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 liked | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 liked | punct |
| 8 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 liked | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 liked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | Parsley | parsley | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parsley=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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she'd eat meat and bread, mad for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bread | cc |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mad | punct |
| 10 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eat | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | would | she | meat and bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, she'd eat nowt else, mad for it, every single day of the year
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | nowt | nowt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 nowt | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eat | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mad | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | would | she | nowt | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowt=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she'd eat nowt else, mad for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | nowt | nowt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 nowt | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eat | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | would | she | nowt | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowt=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, she'd eat loads of cabbage, mad for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 eat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cabbage | case |
| 8 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loads | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mad | punct |
| 10 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eat | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | would | she | loads of cabbage | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |
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