Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…
Did the executioner, like, chop her head off?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: executioner · What happens: do, chop off · To what, where: executioner, head
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 executioner | det |
| 3 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chop | punct |
| 5 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 chop | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 7 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 executioner | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chop | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 chop | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the executioner | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent executioner=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | chop off | infinitive | the executioner not said here | her head | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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 right answer
no, just her feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 feet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 feet | advmod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yes, she was dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 dead | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | dead property | tree rules |
Option 3
yes, but he gave her head back again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | past | he | her head | again | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yes, he chopped off her whole head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 chopped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chopped | nsubj |
| 4 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 head | amod |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chopped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop off | past | he | her whole head | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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