Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a pat…

What was the old lady's name, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name, old lady · What happens: be, name

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lady	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old lady's name				then		tree rules
2	name		the old lady						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Gentle, like, that's her actual name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gentle	Gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 Gentle	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 name	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 name	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
8	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 name	amod
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gentle	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	her actual name					tree rules

Option 2

Mercy, like, that's her actual name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mercy	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 Mercy	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 name	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 name	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
8	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 name	amod
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mercy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	her actual name					tree rules

Option 3

Grace, like, that's her actual name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grace	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 Grace	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 name	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 name	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
8	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 name	amod
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	her actual name					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Patience, like, that's her actual name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 Patience	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 name	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 name	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
8	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 name	amod
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Patience	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	her actual name					tree rules

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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