Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…
the baby was a girl, wasn't it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: girl, it
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 girl | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 it | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 girl | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the baby | a girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | it | 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
yep, a girl with a red bonnet on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bonnet | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bonnet | det |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bonnet | amod |
| 8 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 girl | compound:prt |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, a girl, and the witch had given her a lot of pink ribbons
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 given | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 girl | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lot | det |
| 13 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ribbons | case |
| 15 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ribbons | amod |
| 16 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lot | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the witch | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, a girl, with pink ribbons on its sleeves and a silver rattle
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ribbons | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ribbons | case |
| 7 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ribbons | amod |
| 8 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 girl | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sleeves | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ribbons | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rattle | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rattle | det |
| 14 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rattle | amod |
| 15 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, pink ribbons on its sleeves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ribbons | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ribbons | amod |
| 4 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sleeves | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ribbons | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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