Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…
Did the couple have a happy ending or not?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: couple · What happens: have · To what, where: happy ending
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 couple | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ending | det |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ending | amod |
| 7 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 not | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ending | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the couple | a happy ending | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Patient |
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
Yeah, they were happy for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | year | happy property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, the youth got bored and left the Princess, but the dwarf came back to bother them
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dwarf | det |
| 14 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bother | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bother | case |
| 18 | bother | bother | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bother | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the youth | bored property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the youth not said here | the Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | the dwarf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bother | infinitive | them = they | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
Option 3
Yeah, they lived in peace and plenty for the rest of their long lives together
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 peace | case |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plenty | cc |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peace | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 rest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lives | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lives | nmod:poss |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lives | amod |
| 15 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rest | nmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | they | peace and plenty | for the rest of peace's long lives; together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they lived in peace and plenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 peace | case |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plenty | cc |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peace | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | they | peace and plenty | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
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