Test 3 · ★ · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…
Did the princess actually laugh at the swordsmen, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do, laugh · To what, where: princess, swordsmen
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 laugh | advmod |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 princess | acl:relcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 swordsmen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 swordsmen | det |
| 8 | swordsmen | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laugh | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nah | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nah | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 1 Did | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | laugh | present | the princess not said here | the swordsmen | actually property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Nah, she only smiled once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 smiled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smiled | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 smiled | advmod |
| 5 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 smiled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | she | once property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, she laughed a little bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | she | a little bit | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, just a smile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 smile | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 smile | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 smile | det |
| 5 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she gave a big sweet laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 laugh | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 laugh | amod |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 laugh | amod |
| 8 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | she | a big sweet laugh | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |
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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