Test 12 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steal…

Innit, what did the princess say at the very end, when she realised the time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, princess · What happens: do, say, realise · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 end	advmod
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 realised	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 realised	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 realised	nsubj
15	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 realised	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past	Innit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the princess	at the end	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	realise	past	princess	time	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 · ← Mova's choice

We have waited too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	aux
3	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 waited	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · perfect	We					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

We have gazed too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gazed	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gazed	aux
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 gazed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	present · perfect · passive		We				long property	tree rules

Option 3

We must leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	must	We						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Time to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 go	mark
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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