Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…
bro, why was the prince so sad when he got home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, get · To what, where: prince
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 276 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests a wet visitor with three peas» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prince | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 prince | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prince | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sad | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sad | advmod |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sad | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | prince | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
cause he had met no one who felt real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | aux |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect · passive | cause | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | no one | real property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
cause no princess felt real enough to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | cop |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no princess | him = he | enough, feel, real property | tree rules |
Option 3
cause his father kept him locked up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 father | compound |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | obj |
| 6 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 locked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | keep | past | his cause father | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lock up | participle | him = he not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
cause he had travelled the world and no princess felt real enough to him, so he gave up hope completely
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | aux |
| 4 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | conj |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 felt | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 gave | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hope | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | parataxis |
| 21 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 20 hope | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | past · perfect · passive | cause | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | no princess | him = he | enough, real property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | give up | past | he | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hope | present | completely property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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