Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…
did the queen kiss the witch like a bunch?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen · What happens: kiss · To what, where: witch
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kiss | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kiss | nsubj |
| 4 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kiss | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 bunch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bunch | det |
| 9 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 witch | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kiss | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past · do-support | the queen | the witch | like a bunch | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice
yep, fifty times in a row, and the witch cried the whole time
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 times | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 row | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 row | det |
| 7 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 times | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the witch | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
about twenty times, yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 twenty | advmod |
| 2 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 times | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
fifty times, it was mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 times | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mad | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | cop |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | time | mad property | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, like a hundred or so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hundred | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hundred | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 hundred | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 so | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hundred | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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