Test 2 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…

Mate, why was the Prince well cheesed off with the snail?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, cheese off · To what, where: Prince

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheesed	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheesed	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 cheesed	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Prince	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cheesed	nsubj:pass
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 cheesed	advmod
8	cheesed	cheese	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cheesed	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 snail	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snail	det
12	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheesed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cheesed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Prince					tree rules
2	cheese off	participle · passive		the Prince				with the snail; Mate obl; well 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 · ✓ the right answer

it was too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					slow property	tree rules

Option 2

it was too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					hot property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it kept stopping to eat every leaf on the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopping	xcomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 leaf	det
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 path	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 path	det
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep	past	it			tree rules
2	stop	gerund				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	eat	to-infinitive		every leaf	the path	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 4

it was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					rude property	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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