Test 9 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans…
is the Princess's ride like a boat or what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ride, Princess · What happens: be, ride
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ride | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Princess | case |
| 5 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ride | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Princess's ride like a boat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ride | the Princess | like a boat | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent like=obl |
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
a huge golden sledge shaped like a swan and pulled by reindeer over the ice
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sledge | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sledge | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sledge | amod |
| 4 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sledge | acl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 swan | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swan | det |
| 8 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shaped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pulled | cc |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shaped | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 reindeer | case |
| 12 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 ice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ice | det |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | a huge golden sledge not said here | like a swan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | pull | participle | the ice | by reindeer | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a golden carriage with two horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carriage | amod |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 horses | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 horses | nummod |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a golden swan sledge pulled by reindeer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sledge | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sledge | amod |
| 3 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sledge | compound |
| 4 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sledge | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 reindeer | case |
| 7 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a golden swan sledge not said here | by reindeer | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
a great golden swan sledge pulled by six white reindeer across the snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sledge | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sledge | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sledge | amod |
| 4 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sledge | compound |
| 5 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sledge | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 reindeer | case |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 reindeer | nummod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 reindeer | amod |
| 10 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | obl |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snow | det |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a great golden swan sledge not said here | the snow | by six white reindeer | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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