Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

so wait the dove was a prince at night, right, or was he a prince all day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dove, he · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: prince

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 wait	advmod
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prince	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prince	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 prince	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	17 prince	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 prince	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 prince	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 prince	cop
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 prince	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 prince	det
17	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	parataxis
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prince	obl:unmarked
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		night	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the dove	a prince		tree rules
3	is a	past	he	a prince	day	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

only at night when the moon is up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 up	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 up	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 up	cop
8	up	up	ADV	_	3 night	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the moon					up property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

only in daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	3 daylight	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 daylight	case
3	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

at night, and turned back by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 turned	cc
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past					day; night		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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