Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans…

so the new story starts with a Princess, what's she like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new story, story · What happens: start, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2038 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans drowns in the storm, and the Miller only frets about his wheelbarrow» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 starts	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 Princess	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 like	obj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 like	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Princess	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 starts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	the new story					with a Princess	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with princess=Subeventuality
2	is	present	story					like property	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

pale as snow, like a white rose, with golden hair and a sad face

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rose	advcl
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 snow	case
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pale	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 rose	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rose	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rose	amod
8	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hair	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hair	case
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 face	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 face	det
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 face	amod
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she is the most beautiful Princess in all the lands of the North, very pale

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Princess	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Princess	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Princess	amod
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 lands	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lands	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lands	det
10	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Princess	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 North	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 North	det
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lands	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pale	punct
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 pale	advmod
16	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Princess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	the beautiful Princess		all lands of the North			tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 3

she's pretty and has long hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 's	nsubj
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 's	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 has	cc
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 's	conj
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	she					pretty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	she not said here	long hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

pale as snow, like a white rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snow	case
2	as	as	ADP	_	1 pale	fixed
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 rose	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rose	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rose	amod
8	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snow	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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