Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…
Whit did the sick prince want, Kate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, sick prince · What happens: do, want · To what, where: sick prince
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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 | Whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prince | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kate | punct |
| 8 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Whit | the sick prince | Kate obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | want | present | the sick prince not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
Mair birdie bites and the lassie's hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mair | mair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birdie | compound |
| 2 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bites | nsubj |
| 3 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hand | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lassie | det |
| 6 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 lassie | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bites | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | Mair birdie | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Mair birdie bites
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mair | mair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birdie | compound |
| 2 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bites | compound |
| 3 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Mair birdie bites and a gless o' wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mair | mair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birdie | compound |
| 2 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bites | nsubj |
| 3 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wine | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 o | det |
| 6 | gless | gless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 o | amod |
| 7 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wine | compound |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 o | punct |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bites | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | Mair birdie | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A cup o' fresh milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 milk | case |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk | punct |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 milk | amod |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cup | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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