Test 11 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…
Were the sisters happy to let her try the shoe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sisters, her · What happens: be, let, try · To what, where: her, shoe
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 let | mark |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happy | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shoe | det |
| 10 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 try | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sisters | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | the sisters not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | her = she not said here | the shoe | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality |
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
no, they locked her in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 locked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | nsubj |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | they | her = she | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 2
yes at first, then they changed their minds and locked her in the closet
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 changed | discourse |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 changed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 changed | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 minds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 changed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 locked | cc |
| 11 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 locked | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 closet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 closet | det |
| 15 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | they | their minds | then | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 2 | lock | past | they not said here | her = she | the closet | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | mind | their = they | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
no, they sent her out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sent | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past | they | her = she | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
no, they locked her in the closet and laughed at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 locked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | nsubj |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 closet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 closet | det |
| 8 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laughed | cc |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | they | her = she | the closet | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | they not said here | at her = she | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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