Test 3 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…
Gutted for the Prince, yeah? What did the Mayor reckon the statue looked like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mayor, statue · What happens: gut, reckon, look
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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
Sentence 1: Gutted for the Prince, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Prince | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gutted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 6 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Gutted | discourse |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | for the Prince | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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.
Sentence 2: What did the Mayor reckon the statue looked like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 reckon | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reckon | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mayor | det |
| 4 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 statue | det |
| 7 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reckon | parataxis |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 looked | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the Mayor | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the statue | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Proper shabby and useless looking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 shabby | advmod |
| 2 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looking | compound |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 useless | cc |
| 4 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shabby | conj |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Quite lovely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 lovely | advmod |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Proper shabby, like a ruin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 shabby | advmod |
| 2 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 shabby | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 ruin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ruin | det |
| 6 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shabby | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Proper shabby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 shabby | advmod |
| 2 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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