Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…

what's the queen-mother's plan, like real sneaky stuff?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plan, queen mother · What happens: be, plan

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 queen	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mother	case
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stuff	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stuff	amod
12	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stuff	amod
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plan	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the queen mother's plan						tree rules
2	plan		the queen mother						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

three peas under a mountain of beds, with a silk sheet and a secret signal to the maids

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 peas	nummod
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 mountain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mountain	det
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 beds	case
7	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mountain	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sheet	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 sheet	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sheet	det
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheet	compound
12	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 signal	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 signal	det
15	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 signal	amod
16	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheet	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 maids	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maids	det
19	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 signal	nmod

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

Option 2

she plans to hide the peas in the cellar and then tell the girl that the palace is haunted

The tree, 19 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	2 plans	nsubj
2	plans	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 plans	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peas	det
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hide	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tell	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hide	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 haunted	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 haunted	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 haunted	aux:pass
19	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	plan	present	she					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the peas		the cellar		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pea=Patient in cellar=Location
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	she not said here		the girl		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient
4	haunt	present · passive		the palace				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

three peas under a mountain of beds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 peas	nummod
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 mountain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mountain	det
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peas	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 beds	case
7	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mountain	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

put peas in the cook's soup for the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 soup	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soup	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 cook	case
7	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 put	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	peas		the cook's soup		for the girl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme in soup=Destination

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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