Test 2 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

Wait, what was the Lion on about, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, innit · To what, where: Lion

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Lion	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Lion	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Lion	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 about	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	6 Lion	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the Lion	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

the huntsmen were the Princess and her maids in disguise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 huntsmen	det
2	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Princess	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Princess	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 maids	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 maids	nmod:poss
8	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Princess	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 disguise	case
10	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maids	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the huntsmen	the Princess and her maids in disguise					tree rules

Option 2

they were twelve girls in disguise, not men at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 girls	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girls	cop
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 girls	nummod
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 disguise	case
6	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 men	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 men	advmod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 girls	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 men	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	twelve girls and men at all		disguise			tree rules

Option 3

they were twelve men in masks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 men	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 men	cop
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 masks	case
6	masks	mask	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 men	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	twelve men		masks			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they were twelve girls in disguise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 girls	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girls	cop
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 girls	nummod
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 disguise	case
6	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	twelve girls		disguise			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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