Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…
what did she say she was, like an actual princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1976 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude girl is cursed by the heads and wed to a cobbler» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 princess | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 princess | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 princess | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 10 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princess | amod |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | past | she | like a actual princess | 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 right answer
the king's daughter-in-law
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the king's daughter-in-law from Colchester, honest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 law | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Colchester | case |
| 10 | Colchester | Colchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 law | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honest | punct |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 law | acl:relcl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the king's cousin from town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cousin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
some sort of royal lady from the king's own court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 sort | det |
| 2 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lady | case |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sort | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 court | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 court | amod |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sort | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | royal lady | the king's own court | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient from=place |
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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