Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…
Was the old lady proper livid when Karen wore them to church?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Karen · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: old lady, them
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lady | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 livid | csubj |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 livid | advmod |
| 6 | livid | livid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 wore | advmod |
| 8 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wore | nsubj |
| 9 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 livid | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wore | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 church | mark |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wore | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 livid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wear | past | Karen | them = they | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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 · ✓ the right answer
She was livid
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 | 3 livid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 livid | cop |
| 3 | livid | livid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | livid property | tree rules |
Option 2
She was sad
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 | 3 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sad | cop |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | sad property | tree rules |
Option 3
No, calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 calm | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
She was happy
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 | 3 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happy | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | happy property | tree rules |
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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