Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…
who's at the door, lowkey the king himself?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: door
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 door | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 door | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lowkey | punct |
| 7 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 himself | nsubj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 lowkey | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 door | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the door | 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
the queen's guard, not the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guard | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 queen | case |
| 4 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 king | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guard | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the old king went out to open it himself, grabbing a lamp and a big cloak from the hall
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 open | obj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 open | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grabbing | punct |
| 11 | grabbing | grab | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lamp | det |
| 13 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grabbing | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cloak | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cloak | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cloak | amod |
| 17 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lamp | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grabbing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old king | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the old king not said here | it | king obl:unmarked | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 3 | grab | gerund | the old king not said here | a lamp and a big cloak | the hall | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme from hall=Source |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the old king went out to open it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 open | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old king | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the old king not said here | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
Option 4
the old king went out to open it, but then a wild wind blew the door shut again on him
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 open | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blew | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 blew | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 blew | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wind | amod |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blew | nsubj |
| 15 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blew | obj |
| 18 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blew | xcomp |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 blew | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old king | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the old king not said here | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | a wild wind | the door | then; again | on king; shut property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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